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Shelby Foote

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


— Shelby Foote


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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


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I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.


— Shelby Foote


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Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.


— Shelby Foote


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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


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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


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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


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When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.


— Shelby Foote


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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.


— Shelby Foote


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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 process.


— Shelby Foote


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About Shelby Foote

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Did you know about Shelby Foote?

With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. In 1987 he became a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. When Foote was 15 years old Walker Percy and his brothers LeRoy and Phinizy Percy moved to Greenville to live with their uncle — attorney poet and novelist William Alexander Percy — after the death of their parents.

With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was relatively unknown to the general public for most of his life until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990 where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war that he believed was "central to all our lives. ".

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