- Longevity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Depression
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never cared what kind of grade I got.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those, you're being deprived of something.
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fountain Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Five
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020