Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse;… — 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 know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write;… — 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
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. — 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