Shelby Foote's Quote - I think that everything you do helps you to write if youre a write

Quote by Shelby Foote

I think that everything you do helps you to write if youre a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you dont experience either one of those, youre being deprived of something. – Shelby Foote

Other quotes by Shelby Foote

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

Category:

Poetry

Author

Shelby Foote

Read Quote

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

Category:

Poetry

Author

Shelby Foote

Read Quote

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. – Shelby Foote

Category:

Libraries

Author

Shelby Foote

Read Quote

Other Quotes from

Success

Random Quotes

You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses… I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I dont just deserve it. I have to earn it. – Erskine Bowles

Category:

Trust

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. – Herbert Read

Category:

Society

Flying is hours and hours of boredom sprinkled with a few seconds of sheer terror. – Gregory Pappy Boyington

Category:

Flight, Flying

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. Theyre lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education. – will.i.am

Category:

Education