Shelby Foote Quotes About Writing

• If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.

  Shelby Foote

  Teaching, Writing, Needs

• Creo que todo lo que haces te ayuda a escribir si eres escritor. Tanto la adversidad como el éxito contribuyen en gran medida a convertirte en lo que eres. Si no experimentas ninguna de ellas, te estás privando de algo.

  Shelby Foote

  Writing, Adversity, Thinking

• Y soy un escritor lento: quinientas, seiscientas palabras es un buen día. Por eso tardé veinte años en escribir ese millón y medio de palabras de la Guerra Civil.

  Shelby Foote

  War, Writing, Good Day

• 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.

  Shelby Foote

  Writing, Hands, Trying

• 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.

  Shelby Foote

  Writing, Interesting, Used

• Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

  Shelby Foote

  Hard Work, Writing, Knowing

• If you want to study writing, read Dickens

  Shelby Foote

  Writing, Want, Study

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