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I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

~Amy Sedaris

Topics: Before Books Cop Crime Die Gonna Love Play Shows Thrillers I Love

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I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Any Book Books Day Did Family House Kid Literary Read

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You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Being Book Books Go Hope Just Me Miserable Out Pay Said Salvation Saved Somebody Think Were Will Write You I Think

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I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a book for our personal reasons. I always shudder when I'm told my books are on required reading lists.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Always Any Anyone Book Books Choose Lists Never Our Personal Read Reading Reasons Require Required Seems Shudder Which Why Would

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I read academic books on courtesan culture at the turn-of-the century in Shanghai such as Gail Hershatter's 'The Gender of Memory'. The diaries were mostly in the form of letters from courtesans to a lover who had disappeared or taken their savings.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Academic Books Century Culture Diaries Disappeared Form Gender Had Letters Lover Memory Mostly Read Savings Shanghai Taken Were Who

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For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never heard before, and it must have its own particular intelligence. By 'voice,' I don't mean vernacular. It has to have its own particular history and world that it inhabits.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Before Books Definitely Heard History Intelligence Keep Mean Must Never Own Particular Reading Vernacular Voice Want World

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I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard verses and prayers every day. I liked the gorier Bible stories. I did have a book of Chinese fairy tales. All the people except the elders looked like Italians. But we were not a family that had fiction books.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Because Bible Book Books Chinese Day Did Elders Every Every Day Except Fairy Fairy Tales Family Father Fiction Grew Had Heard Italians Like Liked Looked Minister People Prayers Stories Tales Up Verses Were Which

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I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'Netherland' felt the same way. I liked both books a lot but I don't see them as 9/11 novels.

~Amy Waldman

Topics: Books Both Children Emperor Felt Joseph Like Liked Lot Me Meant Novel Novels Piece Plot Read Same See Them Way Wrestling

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I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

~Amy Winehouse

Topics: Always Books Couple Go Lot Read Travelling

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For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

~Anand Giridharadas

Topics: Being Books Came Everything Family First Floor Homework Learning Left Never Our Sacred Were

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