American novelist (1926- )
There are just some kind of men ... who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.
HARPER LEE
To Kill a Mockingbird
You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences.
HARPER LEE
interview with Roy Newquist, Counterpoints, 1964
My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.
HARPER LEE
interview, Life Magazine, 1961
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.
HARPER LEE
To Kill a Mockingbird
When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.
HARPER LEE
To Kill a Mockingbird