I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find … - Shelby Foote

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When I say the grace of wildness, what I mean is its autonomy, its self-possession, the fact that it has nothing to do with us. The grace is in the separation, the distance, the sense of a self-sustaining way of life.

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 writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

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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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I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

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

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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 fleets come loaded with every folly home.

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If you want to study writing, read Dickens

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