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. Harper Lee Read Quote
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. Harper Lee Read Quote
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. Harper Lee Read Quote
So many writers don’t like to write… I like to write, and sometimes I’m afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don’t want to leave it. And as a result, I’ll go for days and days and days without leaving my house. Harper Lee Read Quote
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. Harper Lee Read Quote
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Harper Lee Read Quote