“Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindStillsBookChoicesFallGamesHouseDifficultCan DoBehindsThis WorldRight NowComputerLosingIntelligentCrisisEntertainmentPublishingPublishersEmergenceBeginnersComputer GamesLosing MoneyPublishing House Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
“Superheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his parents sent him to America in search of a better life. He has two names, one American, Clark Kent, and the other foreign, Kal-El. He wears two sets of clothes and lives in between two cultures. He loves his new country, but a part of him still longs for his old one.” StillsTwoBookCountryAmericaCultureNamesParentClothesCrisisComicImmigrantsComic BookSuperheroBetter LifeHomelandPrototypeKentTwo Cultures Author:Gene Luen Yang
“Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.” WayGivingPersonsLongBookRolesPeriodsCrisisObscureLimelight Author:Susan Ertz
“Think of the centre of interest in a painting as you would read it in a novel or see it in a movie. The crisis or climax is that point when you simply can't put the book down or wouldn't dare leave the movie, for whatever reason.” ThinkingBookReasonInterestNovelPaintingCrisisDareCentreClimax Author:Mike Svob
“Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of contemporary Korea and its diaspora. She guides us surely through the fallout of war, immigration, and financial crisis, always alert to the possibility of tenderness, transcendence, and even humor along the way. Lee is a writer who really understands loneliness, but her voice is so appealing, and her perceptions so wise, that we feel all the less lonely for knowing her characters and experiencing their lives.” WayFeelsBookWarCharacterStoriesMovingVoiceKnowingWiseWrittenLonelinessPossibilityBuildingPerceptionLonelyCrisisComplexesFinancialGuidesImmigrationContemporaryTendernessPortraitsTranscendenceKoreaFinancial CrisisUnforgettableDiasporaFallouts Author:Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
“If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my personal life, health crises, or the deaths of my parents, because there can too easily be a perception of me that my life just went from A to Z uninterrupted, without any ups and downs, and that's not a fair representation.” IfsBookParentStruggleWillingPerceptionFairsCrisisRepresentationPersonal LifeUps & DownsMy Struggle Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma.” ThinkingBookCertainReadingNeededCrisis Author:Sandra Cisneros
“A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.” MenWritingBookEuropeCrisisWorkersDecadesGenreRefugeePioneersMigrantsRefugee CrisisMigrant Workers Author:Adam Hochschild
“I started to change. It was sort of a restaurant mid-life crisis, you could say. I lost a lot of confidence, not so much as a father or as a friend, but as a boss, as a chef that's to make decisions throughout the day all the time. I just slowly started burning out. Once you lose your confidence like that, you start being angry in the kitchen. I couldn't recognize myself anymore. I started writing the journal. It was never meant to be a book, but the editor at Phaidon read parts of it. As editors do, I guess.” WritingBookFatherDecisionCrisisKitchenBossMeant To BeChef Author:Rene Redzepi
“The Last Arrow transcends a moment or an issue. It is a call to move beyond self-indulgence to a life of sacrificial service. In The Last Arrow I address a broad spectrum of issues from the Syrian refugee crisis to the cultural epidemic of depression to the personal struggle of insignificance. The Last Arrow is a clarion call to make a difference in the world rather than a self-help book for personal self-improvement.” WorldBookMomentsMovingStruggleCrisisMaking A DifferenceRefugeeInsignificance Author:Erwin McManus
“The concept of a midlife crisis is a well known one perpetuated by books and films. And recently the idea of a quarter-life crisis, between 20 and 30, has also gained a fair amount of media coverage. But there's a surprising lack of robust research on these events, and almost none on later life crisis.” BookFilmCrisisWell Known Author:Oliver Robinson
“When I wrote my first book, Crisis Management: Planning for the Inevitable, it was endorsed by the American Management Association, and consequently was read by America's top corporate leaders, and overnight put me in high demand as a consultant and as a speaker. Also, that book forever changed the way businesses look at and deal with crises by giving a tangible feel to an otherwise intangible subject.” GivingBookLeaderForeverChangedManagementCrisisPlanningInevitableSpeakers Author:Steven Fink
“In my experience, the public will forgive mistakes, provided they are acknowledged promptly and a remedial course of action is articulated. Lawyers often get in the way of this, which is a subject I cover in my book: how to deal with obstructionist lawyers in a crisis.” BookActionMistakeCrisisForgivingLawyer Author:Steven Fink
“What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.” KnowsWayInspirationalFeelsMayBookStoriesProblemMightHappensGuyLevelsViewsKnow HowAirAbsolutesTheaterCrisisRateScreensDisasterSpotsGood GuyPimples Book:One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional Source: One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional
“Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.” BookGovernmentCrisisFinancialDeeperFormerJournalistAnalysisOfficialsAccurateFinancial CrisisPersuasiveGovernment Officials Author:Andrei Shleifer
“We're in a state of crisis where our nation is literally ripping apart at the seams right now, and lawlessness is occurring from one ocean to the other. And we're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time, where every man doing that which is right in his own eyes-in other words, anarchy.” MenBookStatesEyeNationsSeeingJudgingRight NowOceanCrisisEvery ManFulfillmentAnarchyLawlessness Author:Michele Bachmann
“For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.” MenWantLongBookPhilosophyAgeValuesIssuesRevolutionCapacityEssenceCrisisEnvironmentalEncountersVolumePacksEcologyNew AgeNuanceSuperbEnvironmental Crisis Author:Stewart Udall
“At this point in our global ecological crisis, the survival of humanity will require a fundamental shift in our attitude toward nature: from finding out how we can dominate and manipulate nature to how we can learn from her. In this brilliant and hopeful book, Jay Harman shows us how far the new field of Biomimicry has already progressed toward this goal. The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading - much needed in these dark times.” BookShowsHumanityReadingGoalDarkAttitudeFieldsNeededFindingsSurvivalCrisisFundamentalsBrilliantHopefulFascinatingJoyfulManipulateSharksEcologicalDark TimesPaintbrushEcological CrisisBiomimicry Author:Fritjof Capra
“Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.” WorldArtBookPlaySeemsTodayArtistStruggleIssuesArmsCapitalismTreatsCrisisNotesLocalsDialogueCommunismThemeContradictionFascismImplicationsAngstDisappointingBrecht Author:Richard Foreman
“You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.” WritingI CanBookRunningInterestingSituationMusicianCrisisHistoricalMusicalArtistic Author:Max Roach