"...in other words, all I want to be……" — Harper Lee
"...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964"
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189 Quotes by Harper Lee
Harper Lee has 189 quotes on this site.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of…
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is…
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Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we…
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who…
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Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms,…
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,
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Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense…
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Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to…
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I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death…
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As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for…
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with…
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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running,…
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My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
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As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern…
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
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I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a…
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An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.
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It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief…
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