Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.
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.
Harper LeeDonโt talk like that, Dill,โ said Aunt Alexandra. โItโs not becoming to a child. Itโs โ cynical.โ โI ainโt cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellinโ the truthโs not cynical, is it?โ โThe way you tell it, it is.
Harper LeeNow, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up โ some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.
Harper Lee