The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of…

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look…

— Karen Armstrong

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at…

— Art Spiegelman

For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of.

— Myrtle Reed

Sarah, I want to ask thee a solemn question. Did thee ever one single time have thy Bank book balance and thy own check…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly…

— Anjelica Huston

The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.

— Meg Wolitzer

Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle…

— Howard Frank Mosher

Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and…

— Elinor Ostrom

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship,…

— John Ortberg

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil