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.
HARPER LEEWriting 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.
HARPER LEEIt’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
HARPER LEEUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEEThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
HARPER LEEWhen a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
HARPER LEESome 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.
HARPER LEEYou rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEESometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
HARPER LEEI do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEEThings are always better in the morning.
HARPER LEEBad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
HARPER LEEI would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
HARPER LEEAre you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
HARPER LEEServing 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 LEELadies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
HARPER LEESummer 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.
HARPER LEE