Best Shelby Foote Quotes
- 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… All
- 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… D H
- The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the… Both
- A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. Book
- I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears. Abhor
- 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… Believe
- 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… Battle
- 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,… Alabama
- 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… Accepted