Latest Harper Lee Quotes from Interviews

• My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

  Harper Lee

  Get Better, Want, Talent

  "All I Want To Be Is The Jane Austen Of South Alabama". Entrevista con Roy Newquist, www.thebluegrassspecial.com.

• Escribir es algo que nunca aprenderás en ninguna universidad ni en ninguna escuela. Es algo que está dentro de ti, y si no está ahí, nada puede ponerlo ahí.

  Harper Lee

  Escritura, Escuela, Universidad

  "All I Want To Be Is The Jane Austen Of South Alabama". Entrevista con Roy Newquist, www.thebluegrassspecial.com.

• People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself.

  Harper Lee

  Selfish, Writing, Audience Of One

  "All I Want To Be Is The Jane Austen Of South Alabama". Entrevista con Roy Newquist, www.thebluegrassspecial.com.

• 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

  Escribir, pensar, ideas

  "All I Want To Be Is The Jane Austen Of South Alabama". Entrevista con Roy Newquist, www.thebluegrassspecial.com.

• Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

  Harper Lee

  Southern, Lawyer, Novel

  "The Interrogation of ‘Mockingbird’ Author Harper Lee (Guest Blog)". www.thewrap.com. July 16, 2014.

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