black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Harper Lee

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
HARPER LEE

Action Character Determination Dimension Novel Story
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
HARPER LEE

Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
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.
HARPER LEE

Coffee Creative People Sports Thinking Work Yourself
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.
HARPER LEE

Answer Children Goodness Simplicity Yourself
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
HARPER LEE

Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman
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.
HARPER LEE

Education Learning Writing Yourself
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
HARPER LEE

Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
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.
HARPER LEE

Acknowledgement Choice Family Friendship Right Yourself
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
HARPER LEE

Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
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 LEE

Advice Aspiration Career Development Hide Myself Wisdom Writing
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE

Breathe Fear Lose Love Myself Oneself Reading
Things are always better in the morning.
HARPER LEE

Better Morning One Liner
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
HARPER LEE

Alive Book Cooperation Fake Myself Rest
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.
HARPER LEE

Carry Color Deal Man People Place Right Room Way
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
HARPER LEE

Beginning Cleaning End Faith Prejudice Reason
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
HARPER LEE

Enemy Man Wisdom

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Harper Lee Quotes