Longevity conquers scandal every time.

quote by Shelby Foote
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

quote by Shelby Foote
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

quote by Shelby Foote
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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

quote by Shelby Foote
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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

quote by Shelby Foote
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Shelby Foote
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama coast, so we came back to Memphis.

quote by Shelby Foote
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Shelby Foote
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Shelby Foote
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Shelby Foote
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!