Shelby Foote American Author Quotations

During that year while we were waiting to be inducted into federal service, I wrote the first draft of my first novel, Tournament.

I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama coast, so we came back to Memphis.

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

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.

Loneliness is one of the best things in the world for you. You do something about it: read, for instance, all kind of things, make friends.