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For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: American Books Born Childhood Chinese Did Fiction First Graphic Memory Mostly My Own Novel Own Pulled Research Second

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Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

~Gene Simmons

Topics: Biggest Biggest Influence Books Comic Comic Books Continue Everybody Influence Life My Life Television

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It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

~Gene Simmons

Topics: Books Chambers Gas Gas Chambers Germany Grandfathers Grandmothers Happened History History Books Holocaust Just Met Mother Never Phrase Truth Truth Is Up Were Wiped Yesterday

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Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.

~Gene Tunney

Topics: Anyone Books Could Defensive Enough Essentially Even Fighter Fights Hard Hit Impression Killer Known Might Normally Prize Read Reverse Shakespeare Studied Very Who

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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

~Gene Wilder

Topics: Am Back Bad Books Break Come Give Glass Go Home Kiss Like Lucky More Out Rather Really Some Take Tea Wife Write Writing I Am I Can

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I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

~Gene Wolfe

Topics: Age Around Been Best Book Books Children Excellent First Had Harry Harry Potter Hobbit Kids Older Only Perhaps Potter Read Right Since Them Thing Thought Were Wish Written I Wish

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There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Books Continue Cottage End Ended Garbage Get Lost Many Me More Move Near Now Obviously Our Paradise Praised Rage Ruined Speech Tears Tempest Then

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In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Accurate Beer Books Canyon Comparison Cut Get Guy Hand His History History Books Off Out Really Small Stuff Them Utah Want Who You

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People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Books Documentary Never People Quality Read Value

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It's funny, because people always say when they meet me, having read me - or they read me, having met me - that they are struck by how the tone is pretty similar, in real life and in the books.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Because Books Funny Having How Life Me Meet Met People Pretty Read Real Real Life Say Similar Struck Tone

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