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I'm a slow worker; I'm, I think, a steady worker.

~Harper Lee

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It was something I never expected to - I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

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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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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.

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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

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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 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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 28th, 1926

Died: February 19th, 2016

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