Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
HARPER LEEI’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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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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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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