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Shelby Foote

American Author

Born: Nov 17, 1916

Died: Jun 27, 2005

First Good Me Think Writing You

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Longevity conquers scandal every time. Shelby Foote

Time Every Every Time Scandal Longevity Conquers

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

Word Books Inspiration Most Came Themselves

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something. Shelby Foote

Success Adversity You Experience Think Everything Those Something Both Write Writer Making Contribute Being Either Deprived Helps Largely

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister. Shelby Foote

Time Myself Thought Sister Busy Think Spending Books Spending Time Would Brother Brother And Sister About Obliged Never Around Close Getting Things

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

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. 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

First Took Ten Ten Years Volume Years Five Second Third

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