My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization. — 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
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. — 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
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood, — 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
“He was letting you break your icons one by one. he was letting you reduce him to the status of a human… — 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
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to… — 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
It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Whatcha readin’?” I asked. Atticus turned the book over. “Something of Jem’s. Called The Gray Ghost.” I was suddenly awake. “Why’d you… — 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
“Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he… — 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
Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the… — 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
“He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract… — 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
“Asked him and he said he wasn't. Besides, nothin's real scary except on books.” — 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
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
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in… — 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
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee Copy Share
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee Copy Share
I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class… — Harper Lee Copy Share
“The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not… — Harper Lee Copy Share
I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it. — Harper Lee Copy Share
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