“I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York ...” — Kathryn Stockett Quote

I started writing it the day after Sept. 11. I was living in New York City. We didn't have any phone service and we didn't have any mail. Like a lot of writers do, I started to write in a voice that I missed.

I do wish that people talked about the subject of race, especially in the South.

Truth.

I think if you're president, color goes away completely: you're president and it doesn't matter if you're white, green or purple.

Demetrie came to wait on my grandmother in 1955 and stayed for 32 years. It was common, in Mississippi, to have a black domestic cleaning the kitchen, cooking the meals, looking after the white children.

I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

I think the American people should be able to vote by mail.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

All the mail that I got, half of it said, 'You looked exactly like my brother,' or, 'You look exactly like so-and-so.'