When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. .… — 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
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun… — 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
About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.” — 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 Image
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
