Love Quote by Charles Kuralt

Immortality is a vanity journalists are trained to deny, which is why Kuralt’s confession lands with such quiet force. A daily craft built on deadlines, airtime, and the fast-decaying currency of “relevance” rarely invites you to imagine a reader a century away. Kuralt does anyway, and the phrasing matters: “I would love” isn’t a manifesto; it’s a wistful admission, almost apologetic, as if he’s catching himself wanting something that the job’s professional modesty forbids.

The subtext is an argument about what journalism is allowed to be. Kuralt’s fame came from attentive, humane storytelling - the kind that treats ordinary lives as worthy of careful prose. Wanting to be read in 50 or 100 years implies a bet that the supposedly “small” story can outlast the big one, that texture and voice endure longer than breaking news. It’s also a rebuke, delivered softly, to the churn: most of what fills a news cycle is designed to vanish.

“That comes with growing older” is the line’s sly turn. Age here isn’t just chronology; it’s a shift in incentives. Early in a career you chase impact now: scoops, ratings, front pages. Later you start hearing time as an editor. You become less interested in winning the day than in leaving behind sentences that don’t depend on the day at all. Kuralt frames the longing as natural, even inevitable - not ego, but perspective - while still admitting it’s a longing. That tension is precisely what gives the quote its bite.