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Shelby Foote

"I've never shown anybody a draft of anything."

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"Write and create a blue sky Forever with joy where I can fly."

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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."

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"Writings are thoughts in a defined moment."

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"Every great writer is a great reader."

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"Until you begin to write, then you will see the beauty of writing."

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"What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future."

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"I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe."

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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

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"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."

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"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 the first great battle. It lasted two days."
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"And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action."
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"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 everything you need to know about writing."
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"I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves."
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"When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking."
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"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."
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"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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