Harper Lee Want Quotations

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?