"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
Topic(s):
War
More From Shelby Foote
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
More In War
- "War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war."― Chief Joseph
- "I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism."― P. D. James
- "When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don’t you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?"― Natalie Cole