Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
HARPER LEEAs you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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