If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
It's just, people recognize you for your work, you know? They love you for your work, and they judge you for your work. It's awesome to have people quoting you. I love it.
The treasure of a writer is to maintain their own style.
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.
Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems.
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.