My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964 — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear? — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying… — 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
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