Kathryn Stockett

Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?

— Kathryn Stockett

Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot.

— Kathryn Stockett

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

— Kathryn Stockett

I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?

— Kathryn Stockett

“Some things I just got to keep for myself.”

— Kathryn Stockett

Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.

— Kathryn Stockett

I'd cry, if only I had the time to do it.

— Kathryn Stockett

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

— Kathryn Stockett

“which means I have to lie to her on a daily basis, which is in itself enjoyable but a little degrading at…

— Kathryn Stockett

I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.

— Kathryn Stockett

Got to be the worst place in the world, inside a oven. You in here, you either cleaning or you getting cooked.

— Kathryn Stockett

“ Things ain't never gone change in this town , Aibileen. We living in hell. Our kids is trapped.”

— Kathryn Stockett

No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

— Kathryn Stockett

“I've been dropped off in a place I do not belong anymore. Certainly not here with Mother and Daddy,...”

— Kathryn Stockett

“We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.”

— Kathryn Stockett

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

— Kathryn Stockett

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty,…

— Kathryn Stockett

“I head down the steps to see if my mail-order copy of Catcher in the Rye is in the box. I always…

— Kathryn Stockett

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but…

— Kathryn Stockett

I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with…

— Kathryn Stockett

I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didnt have any phone service…

— Kathryn Stockett

President Kennedy’s assassination, less than two weeks ago, has struck the world dumb. It’s like no one wants to be the first…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Minny: "Isn't Mister Johnny gonna wonder how the foods so good?" Celia: "You're right..." *silence* Celia: "Maybe we should burn the chicken…

— Kathryn Stockett

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the…

— Kathryn Stockett

As children, we looked up to our maids and our nannies, who were playing in some ways the role of our mothers.…

— Kathryn Stockett

I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Lot a folks think if you talk back to you husband, you crossed the line. And that justifies punishment. You believe that…

— Kathryn Stockett

Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Minny: "Eat my shit." Hilly: "Excuse me?" Minny: "I said eat...my...shit." Hilly: "Have you lost your mind?" Minny: "No ma'am, but you…

— Kathryn Stockett

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side,…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Now I had babies confuse before. John Green Dudley, first word out a that boy's mouth was Mama and he was looking…

— Kathryn Stockett

“Baby Girl,” I say. “I need you to remember everything I told you. Do you remember what I told you?” She still…

— Kathryn Stockett

If singing was a color, it would've been the color of that chocolate.

— Kathryn Stockett

“The phone ring so I go in the kitchen and answer it. “Got a little”

— Kathryn Stockett

…I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

— Kathryn Stockett

“Find I can get my point across a lot better writing them down”

— Kathryn Stockett

“Kindness don't have no boundaries.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“What should we do about it?” asks Miss Celia. We. God forgive me, but I wish there wasn’t a “we” mixed up…

— Kathryn Stockett

“I’ve never been happier in my whole life.” I leave it at that. Underneath all that happy, she sure doesn’t look happy.”

— Kathryn Stockett

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

— Kathryn Stockett