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 LEESummer 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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