Harper Lee Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  Harper Lee

  Bible, Christian, Book

• I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn't realized it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Years, People

  "Harper Lee to publish new book, sequel to 'Mockingbird'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2015.

• Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Long, Alive

  "Harper Lee says claim that new memoir has her blessing is 'a falsehood'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2014.

• Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? 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

  Book, Heart, Phones

• Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Phones, Empty Rooms

• I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers but at the same time I sort of hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.

  Harper Lee

  Encouragement, Book, Hands

  "Harper Lee breaks silence - just - for Mockingbird anniversary" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2010.

• Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.

  Harper Lee

  Beautiful, Baby, Morning

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

• Nothin’s real scary except in books.

  Harper Lee

  Real, Book, Scary

  Joyce Milton, Harper Lee (1984). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.75, Barron's Educational Series

• You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

  Harper Lee

  Reading, Book, Hitting

• My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Civilization, Southern

• I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Library, Old Fashioned

  "Harper Lee OKs e-book version of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'" by Melodi Smith, www.cnn.com. April 29, 2014.

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