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 those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself.

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma'am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin'. Don't you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin'.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.