Most Of My Inspiration, If

People Want To Know Why The South Is So Interested In The Civil War. I Had Maybe, It's A Rough Guess, About Fifty Fistfights In My Life. Out Of Those Fifty Fistfights, The Ones That I Had The Most Vivid Memory Of Were The Ones I Lost. I Think That's One Reason Why The South Remembers The War More Than The North Does.

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 Don't Want Anything To Do With Anything Mechanical Between Me And The Paper, Including A Typewriter, And I Don't Even Want A Fountain Pen Between Me And The Paper.

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 Took Five Years On The First Volume, Five Years On The Second Volume, And Ten Years On The Third Volume.