Joel Chandler Harris Professions : JournalistBorn : December 9, 1848Died : July 3, 1908 Browse All Authors Top 12 quotes by Joel Chandler Harris Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing. Joel Chandler Harris paperselfwriting I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee. Joel Chandler Harris flingpatchesfoxes People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago. Joel Chandler Harris long-agowritingpeople Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck. Joel Chandler Harris luckwantwatches I am in the prime of my senility. Joel Chandler Harris senilityprime Once upon a time a Georgian printed a couple of books that attracted notice, but immediately it turned out that he was little more than an amanuensis for the local blacks--that his works were really the products, not of white Georgia, but of black Georgia. Writing afterward as a white man, he swiftly subsided into the fifth rank. Joel Chandler Harris couplewritingbook Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug. Joel Chandler Harris jugsloud Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired. Joel Chandler Harris lazytired Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum. Joel Chandler Harris roostersfine When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at. Joel Chandler Harris specksfolks Please don't throw me in dat briar patch! Joel Chandler Harris briarspatchesplease Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'. Joel Chandler Harris bird Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalistAll Authors
