A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard–by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.


The New York Times (Jan. 25, 1968)

Archibald MacLeish Quotes

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard–by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard–by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard–by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard–by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.