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“If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.”

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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.

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I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the…

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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric…

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“To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers”

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“Moon was from somewhere up east, the kind of place where consonants took on a life of their own. In addition to this, she…

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Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.

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“I’ve got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.”

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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.

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Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give…

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Firefighters and rescue workers are American superheroes.

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