Quotes from 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.

I am in the prime of my senility.

Tar-baby ain't sayin' nuthin', en Brer Fox, he lay low.

Jaybird don't rob his own nes'.

Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?

Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox.

Hit look lak sparrer-grass, hit feel lak sparrer-grass, hit tas'e lak sparrer-grass, en I bless ef 'taint sparrer-grass.

You do de pullin', Sis Cow, en I'll do de gruntin'.

When you've got a thing to say, Say it! Don't take half a day. When your tale's got little in it Crowd the whole thing in a minute! Life is short--a fleeting vapor-- Don't you fill the whole blamed paper With a tale which, at a pinch, Could be cornered in an inch! Boil her down until she simmers, Polish her until she glimmers.

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.

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