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 LEEUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Summer 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.
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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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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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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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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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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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