Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
HARPER LEEPeople generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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 wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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