122 Quotes by Shelby Foote

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.

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.

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

If you want to study writing, read Dickens

A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year...