Chinua Achebe: If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. — Chinua Achebe

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Balzac is perhaps the only writer who has the right to write badly. — Jules Renard
You see it's awfully hard to talk or write about your own stuff because if it is — Ernest Hemingway
A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer ma — Ernest Hemingway
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let's go dance under the elms: Step lively, young lassies. Let's go dance under — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Religion is faith in an Infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that Recti — William Ellery Channing
Man thinks Brutes have no wisdom, since they know not his: Can we divine their w — George Eliot
"Time," I said, "Well, I read somewhere that time is what keeps everything from — Cummings
We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, — Swami Vivekananda
As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings—that tomorrow's sunlight — Bacchylides
If all the Punjabis were to die to the last man without killing, Punjab will be — Mahatma Gandhi