Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEEWriting 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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 do my best to love everybody.
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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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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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