Joel Chandler Harris Quotations

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.

Lazy fokes's stummucks don't git tired.

When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.

Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

Jay-bird don't rob his own nes'.

Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!

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.

Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.

Licker talks mighty loud w'en it git loose fum de jug.

I am in the prime of my senility.

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.

Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.