I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and qual… - Shelby Foote
But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and qual…
- Shelby Foote
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is. - Shelby Foote
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between m… - Shelby Foote
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between m…
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. - Shelby Foote
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience. - Shelby Foote
Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the… - Shelby Foote
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the…
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything … - Shelby Foote
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything …
As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of … - Shelby Foote
As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of …
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made. - Shelby Foote
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.
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