Today the mockingbird does not sound very happy. It sounds if it is coming apart. As of the very heart of itself-its… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Even though I didn't think I'd like empathy it kind of creeps up on you and makes you feel all warm and… — Kathryn Erskine Copy Share Image
“So my name is Scout. Yeah, my mom read To Kill a Mockingbird. Leave it to her to think 5th grade required… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Hush, little students, we'll say the word, Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird. And if that mockingbird won't sing, Mama's gonna write… — Daisy Whitney Copy Share Image
Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I thought of To Kill a Mockingbird. I had finished reading it one night in a bunker, my knees bent and hunched… — Michael Anthony 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
“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 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
When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in… — Winona Ryder 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
“DAISIES It is possible, I suppose that sometime we will learn everything there is to learn: what the world is, for example,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and… — Raymond Cruz Copy Share Image
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
'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
You're a soft melody. Well I swear that I heard. From a lost mockingbird stuck up in a tree. — Amos Lee Copy Share Image
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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