Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. Harper Lee More Quotes by Harper Lee More Quotes From Harper Lee A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them. Harper Lee wisermenenemy Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own. Harper Lee take-carecarestudy No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. Harper Lee daddysmartthinking 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 tkamlaughingthinking Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal. Harper Lee empty-roomsdarknessheart The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets - Harper Lee housedoorspeople Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean. Harper Lee settlingoceantalking She was born in the Objective case. Harper Lee borncasesobjectives There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em. Harper Lee bulletsemsmen Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again. Harper Lee enough-timetryingthinking I do my best to love everybody Harper Lee Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant. Harper Lee mindsometimesmen In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose. Harper Lee purposemindbelieve As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me. Harper Lee educationbelieveschool 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 hateartistwriting I have nothing but gratitude for the people who made the film. It was a most unusual experience. I'm no judge, and the only film I've ever seen made was Mockingbird, but there seemed to be an aura of good feeling on the set. I went out and looked at them filming a little of it, and there seemed to be such a general kindness, perhaps even respect, for the material they were working with. I was delighted, touched, happy, and exceedingly grateful. Harper Lee gratitudegratefulkindness I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with. Harper Lee girlplaypeople I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Harper Lee integritybelievereality Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night Harper Lee folksnight Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. Harper Lee readingtwothinking
