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It's better to emphasize biblical theology, partly because there are fine Study Bibles already available that lean into systematic theology, and partly… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
There is little disagreement on our planet that the lives of most human beings could be improved immensely. Words pour out of… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
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Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
One day in '61, I was looking in the Santa Monica phone book for a number, and there it was: Stan Laurel,… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I wrote my own first book about the defense of television as an art form in 1992. It was harder to make… — David Bianculli Copy Share Image
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Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
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My books serve as archives of thoughts and emotions, like a tonal history that captures how I felt at a certain time… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
My best-known book remains 'Henry and Clara,' a novel about the couple who were with the Lincolns at Ford's Theatre on April… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
The holy men and women, whose lives are told throughout this book, witness to the fact that the word of God is… — Stephen J. Binz Copy Share Image
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Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
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In both the Holy Land of the New Testament and the promised land of the Book of Mormon, [our Savior] spent considerable… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
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