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.
HARPER LEEYou rarely win, but sometimes you do.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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I do my best to love everybody.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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