Charles Kuralt Stories Quotations

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. So they were always about somebody I like, 'cause if I didn't like him, I just didn't do the story. And to have somebody else paying the bills for this tourism, to every corner of every stage, over and over again? Why, who wouldn't want a job like that?

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.