Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
HARPER LEEI think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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 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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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