I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
HARPER LEEPeople in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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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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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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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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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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