“I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays… — harper lee Copy Share Image
Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom,… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think… — Stephen Chbosky 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
'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty… — Wayne Flynt Copy Share Image
“No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney… — Annie Dillard 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
When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.' — Nick Robinson Copy Share Image
Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“all theories like cliches shot to hell, all these small faces looking up beautiful and believing; I wish to weep but sorrow… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: “Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en!… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Like Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, I saw the effortless grace and elegance of the women around me and realized… — Sophie Hudson Copy Share Image
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses… That proves something - that a gang of wild animals… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch,… — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
![“I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty obvious in "To Kill A Mockingbird," maybe a bit - little bit less obvious and more obscure in "Go Set A Watchman."” quote by Wayne Flynt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/60a/wayne-flynt-65979_bits_i-would-say-what-was-always-on-her-harpe_1575781.jpg)
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