Top 70 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Caro - Page 2

The Senate is an unknowing world

I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among many non-fiction writers that the narrative is terribly important.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless

My interest is in power. How power works.

My predictions are notably inaccurate

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world