I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
HARPER LEELadies pick funny things to be proud of.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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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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