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.

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

Writing, Self, Paper

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

Joel Chandler Harris

Luck, Watches, Want

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

Foxes, Patches, Fling

Joel Chandler Harris, Richard Chase (1983). “The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am in the prime of my senility.

Joel Chandler Harris

Prime, Senility

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

Writing, Long Ago, People

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

Joel Chandler Harris

Jugs, Loud

'Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings' (1880) 'Plantation Proverbs'

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

Couple, Book, Writing