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
I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows,… — 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
“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
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell… — 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
“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
