Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

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.

Shelby FooteAuthor · American · 1916 – 2005
More from Shelby Foote
Success QuotesBook QuotesMotivational Quotes
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. — Benjamin Disraeli
  • Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. — Winston Churchill
  • Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. — Ambrose Bierce
  • Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves. — Shelby Foote
  • I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume. — Shelby Foote
  • 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. — Shelby Foote
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026