Harper Lee

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

- Harper Lee

"She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father."

- Harper Lee

"Most people are nice when you finally see them."

- Harper Lee

"Atticus, he was real nice.” “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

- Harper Lee

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."

- Harper Lee

"“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”"

- Harper Lee

"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself… it’s a self-exploratory operation that is endless."

- Harper Lee

"You rarely win, but sometimes you do."

- Harper Lee

"Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"It’s not time to worry yet."

- Harper Lee

""Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.""

- Harper Lee

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

- Harper Lee

"Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all…"

- Harper Lee