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

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

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

- Shelby Foote

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

- 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…

- 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 …

- 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.

- 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 …

- Shelby Foote