A Fact Is Not A Truth Until

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.

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.

I Abhor The Idea Of A Perfect World. It Would Bore Me To Tears.

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 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.