Quotes About Book Clubs

#1. Book clubs are totally dope - like English class if you were allowed to read only books that you actually like and snack and sip while discussing them.

Sam Maggs

#2. I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

#3. It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking to be whisked away from the world for a little while ... and perhaps to learn a bit about themselves in the process.

Jodi Picoult

#4. I really enjoyed hearing the likesand dislikesof my readers at book clubs as well as meeting new fans at the book signing at The Bookworm in Omaha " he said. "The book clubs have overwhelmingly asked me to hurry up on writing the sequel.

J. Alexander Greenwood

#5. I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Chang-rae Lee

#6. Book clubs, both online and in person, have become a large percentage of the reading public, and many of them won't consider reading books in hardcover.

Christina Baker Kline

#7. I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigorating part of reading them, and it's nice that that is getting attention from the media.

Ann Packer

#8. Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

Adriana Trigiani

#9. 'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.

Matthew Pearl

#10. The Book Charm

Your Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared

Viola Shipman

#11. He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives.

Carol Anshaw

#12. Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.

Joe Queenan

#13. But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen's clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as our
game plan ever was - to make food that tasted good.

Bjorn Shen

#14. Whenever one of us introduced an old favorite, we savored the other's first delight like a shared meal eaten with a newly acquired gusto, as if we'd never truly tasted it before.

Pamela Paul

#15. I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead

Amy Hatvany

#16. I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school. I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm, and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for bullies.

Nicole Anderson

#17. There was a time when going out to parties and dinner parties and clubs was an exciting thing to do. I'd wake up in the morning and immediately think, 'Now what am I doing tonight?' Now I'd be more likely to reach for a book.

Gina Bellman

#18. [Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.

James Nicoll

#19. One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it's happened.

Fredrik Backman

#20. Maybe he was too drunk to hear me when I told him to stop. Maybe I didn't say it loudly enough. Maybe I didn't say it enough times.

Amy Hatvany

#21. I want to rewind the clock, take back the night when the world shattered. I want to erase everything that went wrong.

Amy Hatvany

#22. If you can be heard then you exist.

Fredrik Backman

#23. What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?

Jami Attenberg

#24. A Mother & Daughter's Love Is Never Separated

Viola Shipman

#25. Normal life is presentable. In normal life, you clean up the kitchen and keep your balcony tidy and take care of your children. It's hard work
harder than one might think.

Fredrik Backman

#26. I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.

Oprah Winfrey

#27. Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month Club.

Melvin Belli

#28. 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

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

Edward Abbey

#30. Soccer forces life to move on. There's always a new match. A new season. There's always a dream that everything can get better. It's a game of wonders.

Fredrik Backman