Shelby Foote

“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.”

“I never cared what kind of grade I got.”

“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.”

“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.”