Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Until I feared I would loose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“To the Richmond Leader in 1966 when the school board banned her novel: “Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn’t realized it (the original book) had survived, so… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“No jury in this part of the world's going to say, "We think you're guilty, but not very," on a charge like that. It… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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