"I don't want anything to do with anything……" — Shelby Foote
"I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper."
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34 Quotes by Shelby Foote
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- North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no…
- Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the…
- Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
- I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely…
- People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones…
- I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.
- People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough…
- And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing…
- But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of…
- I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to…
- Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have…
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