His response in 1824 to John Joseph Stockdale who threatened to publish anecdotes of Wellington and his mistress Harriette Wilson, as quoted in Wellington — The Years of the Sword (1969) by Elizabeth Longford. This has commonly been recounted as a response made to Wilson herself, in response to a threat to publish her memoirs and his letters. This account of events seems to have started with Confessions of Julia Johnstone In Contradiction to the Fables of Harriette Wilson (1825), where she makes such an accusation, and states that his reply had been "write and be damned".
Benjamin Zephaniah (1958) English poet and author
On the realization that he was a poet in “Interview with Benjamin Zephaniah” https://www.writersandartists.co.uk/writers/advice/37/a-writers-toolkit/interviews-with-authors/interview-with-benjamin-zephaniah in Writers & Artists
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Letter to Bernard Berenson (2 October 1952); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
“It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.”
Vasily Grossman (1905–1964) Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer
1960s
“God damn, The Pusher
God damn, I say The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man.”
Hoyt Axton (1938–1999) American country singer
The Pusher (1968)
“Hindus are damned if they do, damned if they don't.”
Koenraad Elst (1959) orientalist, writer
Source: 2000s, Decolonizing the Hindu Mind (2001), p. 97
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
Letter to Alexander the Great as quoted by William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), Ch. 2, Sect. 2
Mariano Rajoy (1955) Spanish politician
4 February, 2013, during a press conference with Angela Merkel, when asked about the Bárcenas Case. <br class="br">As President, 2013 <br class="br">Source: El País https://politica.elpais.com/politica/2013/02/04/actualidad/1359990966_366780.html
Paul Conrad (1924–2010) German theologian
As quoted in Pompilio, N. (2002). Not So Funny http://www.ajr.org/article_printable.asp?id=2651. American Journalism Review.
