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.
HARPER LEEThe 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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