Harper Lee Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

  Harper Lee

  Flower, Good Luck, Two

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

• I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

  Harper Lee

  Giving, Trying, Ems

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

• 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.

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

  Harper Lee

  Encouragement, Giving, Enough

  "Mockingbird author steps out of shadows" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2006.

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