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 LEEI would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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It 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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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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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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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