[PW] Ghost-Written Famous Quotations

[S M Colowick]

Peggy Noonan wrote "Read my lips: no new taxes." (But according to
Wikipedia it was JFK, not Ted Sorensen, who wrote "Ask not what your
country...")

Susie

On 6/21/07, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> I am writing an article about famous quotations that were actually formulated
> by ghost-writers of one sort or another rather than by the person usually
> credited with them.  Examples would be speechwriters whose words are credited
> to politicians; actors who ad-libbed lines not included in the original
> screenplays; literary ghost-writers such as Robert Graves writing T. E.
> Lawrence's poem at the beginning of _Seven Pillars of Wisdom_; etc.  Can anyone
> suggest examples of such famous ghost-written quotations?
>
> Fred Shapiro