I've Never Shown Anybody A Draft Of

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.

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.

As A Southerner I Would Have To Say That One Of The Main Importances Of The War Is That Southerners Have A Sense Of Defeat Which None Of The Rest Of The Country Has.

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.

A Fact Is Not A Truth Until You Love It.