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  • Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.

    "Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author, dead at 89" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 19, 2016.