A fact is not a truth until you love it. Shelby Foote More Quotes by Shelby Foote More Quotes From Shelby Foote Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience. Shelby Foote learning-experience grants war Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time. Shelby Foote hard-work knowing writing A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year. Shelby Foote success happiness years Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home. Shelby Foote passion mind home I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume. Shelby Foote second-chance years firsts I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way. Shelby Foote modern historical way And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. Shelby Foote good-day writing war And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action. Shelby Foote real men thinking If you want to study writing, read Dickens Shelby Foote study want writing I've never shown anybody a draft of anything. Shelby Foote My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. Shelby Foote successful book firsts Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister. Shelby Foote sister-in-law brother book I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. Shelby Foote writing trying hands I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe. Shelby Foote depression believe people I never cared what kind of grade I got. Shelby Foote grades kind Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days. Shelby Foote great battle glory leader I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh. Shelby Foote nature mistake character science
