Kill a mockingbird Quote by Harper Lee

“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

That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

— Harper Lee

“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

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

“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

“...[Summer] was a thousand colors in a parched landscape...”

— Harper Lee

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

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.

— Harper Lee

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

“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

“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

“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.”

— Harper Lee