Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
HARPER LEEWhen a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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