Battle Quote by Shelby Foote

A fact is not a truth until you love it.

— Shelby Foote

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam.…

— Shelby Foote

“For my part I consider the central idea pervading this struggle is the necessity that is upon us of proving that popular government is…

— Shelby Foote

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is…

— Shelby Foote

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with…

— Shelby Foote

“He is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk but then insist on a…

— Shelby Foote

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

— Shelby Foote

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…

— Shelby Foote

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…

— Shelby Foote

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

— Shelby Foote

I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama…

— Shelby Foote

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

— Shelby Foote