Well, I watched The Island last night with my wife. Maybe I’ll publish my thoughts later this week, but here’s my favorite quote from the movie:
Lincoln Six Echo: Who is God?
McCord: You know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you.
Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
I found this quote on a website this morning:
Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.
Harper Lee
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Another way [young writers] fool themselves is when they study to be writers. They are training themselves, in colleges, to be writers. . . .
[W]riting 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 Lee, from an interview with Roy Newquist, published in Counterpoint (1964).
It’s just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good one.
Harper Lee, from an interview with Roy Newquist, published in Counterpoint (1964).