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Like everybody, I too believed that couples lived happily ever after. But it only happens in books. Amrita Singh

Too Everybody Books Only Like Couples After Happens Happily Lived Believed Ever Ever After

Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries - just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it. Amy Bloom

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I don't write to create performance material; I write to make books. Amy Gerstler

Books Write Performance Make Material Create

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives. Amy Lowell

Life Heart Men Past Books More Very Than Quintessence Died Essence Worked Ages Reason Why Lives Core

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words. Amy Lowell

Dreams You Words Books Either Cut Swords

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

Love Crime Before Books Thrillers Die Gonna Shows Play Cop

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

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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

Day Family Book Books Kid House Read Did Any Literary

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

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads. Anatole France

Everybody Books Those Admires Nobody Reads

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful. Andrew Clements

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Books and people are hard to compare. Andrew Clements

People Books Hard Compare

I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either. Andrew Dominik

When you are playing somebody who did exist, and there is good source material on them, whether it is a biography or archives or experts, you would be stupid not to delve into them. But there is a point in the process where you leave the books alone, and instead, you focus on the script and creating your version. Andrew Gower

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I like to play football, read some books, study. Andrew Luck

Books Some Football Study Like Read Play Play Football

The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures. Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter. Andrew Sean Greer

Selfish Inspire Looking Books Latter Some Write Read Always Reasons

You can look at my books and not find particular joy on every page because, of course, what you want to write about is the difficulty of the human experience. You don't want to lie about things to make happy endings and weddings if they don't deserve to happen. But I would be lying if I didn't try to communicate some of the pleasure of being alive. Andrew Sean Greer

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You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading. Andrew Sean Greer

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I don't sign contracts for my books. Andrew Vachss

Books Sign Contracts

I don't take advances for my books. Andrew Vachss

Books Take Advances

I loved doing problems in school. I'd take them home and make up new ones of my own. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem - Fermat's Last Theorem. Andrew Wiles

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I am a big book collector. I love books. Andrew Zuckerman

Love Book Big Books Collector Am

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