A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This, books can do-nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live; They soothe the grieved,… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
The First Lady asked me how many people passed through the White House on tours. When I told her thousands did, she… — Clark Clifford Copy Share Image
“Austin cleared his throat. Given the choice between being with books or people, he'd always choose books. You could always tell what… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“No book can be written till it wants to be written, till it shouts to be written, and raises up a persistent… — Jyoti Arora Copy Share Image
The concept of a midlife crisis is a well known one perpetuated by books and films. And recently the idea of a… — Oliver Robinson Copy Share Image
“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the… — Diane Schoemperlen Copy Share Image
For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
- "Women should all move to Amazonia, or at least vacation there four times a year." - "Amazonia?" - "It's the girl… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture… — Laurie Viera Rigler Copy Share Image
The theme that runs through all my books is connection. Connection - physical and non-physical - with other humans, and connection with… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems,… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
One of the many things I love about bound books is their sheer physicality. Electronic books live out of sight and out… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd… — Richard Riordan Copy Share Image
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the… — Sabina Murray Copy Share Image
For Calvin, the creation reflects its Creator at every point. Image after images flashed in front of our eyes, as Calvin attempts… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
In this age of space flight, when we use the modern tools of science to advance into new regions of human activity,… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
An intelligence officer and historian, Rayburn published a 2014 book, 'Iraq After America,' which is a must-read for anyone who wants to… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to… — Jenny Mollen Copy Share Image
I made a film called "The Theory of Everything," which is based on Jane Hawing, who was married to Stephen Hawking -… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
