Best Book Club Quotes

#1. I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

Claire Danes

#2. Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

Janet Goodfriend

#3. I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

Gary Shteyngart

#4. My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

Tim Federle

#5. Anyone who met him today would say, *Soldier. Fighter.* They would want him on their team. As a mother she was willing to engage in pride over fear and to admit the possibility that his sacrifice was hers, too. His sacrifice was something she had been able to give her country.

Lea Carpenter

#6. I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today's society, there's so much pressure to communicate, eat out, be friends with people. Why can't you read a book on your own? Why have you got to have a book club?

Nicky Wire

#7. What if in every breakup, the dumper gets to live happily ever after, while the dumpee gets a lifetime membership in the Bitter Book Club?

Melissa Kantor

#8. Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different.

Jane Austen

#9. I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another.
Mallory Pike

Ann M. Martin

#10. Benji, book club isn't about the book. It's about women getting together to talk about our lives with an assortment of baked goods nearby. And wine. But don't you worry, it's okay if I skip one." "What are you talking

Jenny Lee

#11. If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise ... then you'll want to join me here in the Wow, I Like No Need of Sympathy Club. Your membership fee is the same as your membership privileges: this book.

Albert Goldbarth

#12. Many believers get together to discuss a great book and mistakenly call it Bible study. That is, in fact, a book club with a spiritual theme.

Jen Hatmaker

#13. Ebb and flow, ebb and flow, our lives. Is that why we're fascinated by the steadfastness of stars? The water reaches my calves. I begin the story of the Pleiades, women transformed into birds so Swift and bright that no man could snare them.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#14. For example, if she joined the book club - there was always a book club - and hung out with them, her choice of guys would be limited to the dark and moody Chuck Palahniuk/Kurt Vonnegut/Life-Sucks-and-Then-You-Die brooders.

Pete Hautman

#15. It's quite a library, anyway," she said, trying to sound upbeat. "I've begun to think of it as more graveyard than library. End of the line, you know. Where book-of-the-month club comes to die." As

Matthew J. Sullivan

#16. You've got to look out for number one. If you're really worried about not being spoiled, just pound on through that book guys. Just read the shit out of it.

Veronica Belmont

#17. Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination.

S.A. Tawks

#18. Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.

Clay Shirky

#19. I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.

Jen Lancaster

#20. I tried to start a gang once.
It turned into a book club.
- MEME

Darynda Jones

#21. To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.

Abby Fabiaschi

#22. The first rule of book club - is that nobody wants to talk about book club.

Douglas Lewis

#23. A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

Edward Abbey

#24. By the way, I'm not usually attracted to danger," I said. "Up until now I've led a pretty boring life."

"Boredom is good!" Dr. Rasman looked pleased. "Boredom is why God invented books. Are you still in your book club?

Julie Schumacher

#25. I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

Oprah Winfrey

#26. Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Karen Joy Fowler

#27. I think a lot of people saw 'Fight Club' and thought, 'Right, here's our next Che Guevara, here's our next Fidel Castro, here's someone who's going to wave the flag.' And I was like, 'No, it's just a book. And if I beat that drum, if I play that song one more time, I won't have a career.'

Chuck Palahniuk

#28. My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.

Lauren Conrad

#29. We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.

Will Schwalbe

#30. Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Yann Martel

#31. Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Erma Bombeck

#32. What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once.

Lorna Landvik