Harper Lee Quotes and New Novel

Harper Lee is an American novelist who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The book was published in 1960 and became an immediate bestseller with more than 30 million copies in print by 1999. It deals with the racism she observed as a child in her hometown in Monroeville, Alabama. Lee was born on April 28, 1926 and is 88 years old.She helped her childhood friend, Truman Capote, with his research for the book, In Cold Blood.

Lee’s Go Set a Watchman was completed in the 1950s and will be released on July 14th this year, more than fifty years after her first novel. The story takes place before To Kill a Mockingbird and Lee thought it had not survived. Her friend and lawyer,Tonja Carter discovered it.

Here are some quotes by Harper Lee:

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”

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

 “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fightin’ with your head for a change.” Atticus Finch

  “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

 

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”