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 LEE
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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in 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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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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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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When 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.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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