A Combination Of All That Was Best

I've Never Shown Anybody A Draft Of Anything.

A University Is Just A Group Of Buildings Gathered Around A Library.

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.

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.

Most Of My Inspiration, If That's The Word, Came From Books Themselves.