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 LEEWe’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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