The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are... →
Jonathan Safran Foer
People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of... →
When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things... →
Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book... →
Joshua Foer
The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book... →
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so... →
Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find... →
Phil Foglio
The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
Ken Follett
You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
Harrison Ford