But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

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

Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.

They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.

Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.