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Shelby Foote (born 17 November 1916, died 27 June 2005) was an American historian and novelist who wrote The Civil War: A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war.
Quotes on writing
- Longevity conquers scandal every time.
- Most of my inspiration, if that’s the word, came from books themselves.
- I can’t begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.
- 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.
- 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 you need to know about writing.
- 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.
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