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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession. -- Nancy Grace
To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me. -- Jessica Marais
My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face. -- Mary-Louise Parker
I would come, many years later, to understand why To Kill A Mockingbird is considered an important novel, but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me. -- Jessica Marais
My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird. -- Kathryn Stockett
I love 'To Kill A Mockingbird' - it seems to offer up new layers every time you read it. I also love Kate Atkinson's 'Behind The Scenes At The Museum' - that's the book that started me writing. -- Jojo Moyes
I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader. -- Karin Slaughter
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You rarely win, but sometimes you do. -- Harper Lee
Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along? -- Harper Lee
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. -- Harper Lee
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. -- Stephen Chbosky
This case is just as racist as the fictional, but unfortunately all too typical case, in 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. -- John Simon
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. -- Harper Lee
I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque. -- Sissy Spacek
Like Scout and her father in To Kill a Mockingbird, my father would pull me onto his lap each night in our four-room apartment and read aloud. -- Jim Trelease
I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another book. -- Stephen Chbosky
I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say." -- Oprah Winfrey
Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it taught me not to judge a man by the color of his skin but what good does that do me? -- Homer
My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year. -- Ridley Pearson
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children. ~To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 16, spoken by the character Atticus -- Harper Lee
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. -- Harper Lee
I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird. -- John Krasinski
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had. -- Anna Quindlen
I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back into her childhood. I grew up in a real small town - Lee's was in the South, mine the Northwest - but small towns have a lot in common. There was such a revelation in knowing that a story could be told like that. -- Chris Crutcher
Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. -- Harper Lee
In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time. -- Mary Badham
Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' -- Berkeley Breathed
I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.' -- Nick Robinson
When I was a kid, they bussed us down to a screening of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in an old theater, and it was just a great experience. -- Raymond Cruz
I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning. -- Nancy Grace
Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' -- Scott Turow

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