Quotes by Shelby Foote

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else....

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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose,...

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I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and...

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I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity...

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I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to...

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I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things...

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I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the...

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I never cared what kind of grade I got.

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I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including...

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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry....

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Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about...

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But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with...

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