American - Novelist | April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
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From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
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I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.
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I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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My daddy had a pocket watch that he wore at all times in court. I gave Greg the watch and showed him how Daddy used to use it.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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This was life in the '30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.
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I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.
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It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn't have an eventful childhood.
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In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I'm concerned, that part is Greg's for life. I've had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I've always refused.
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