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 LEEIt 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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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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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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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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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 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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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