Book Club Quotes

• 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

  Book, Getting High, Clubs

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• For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

  Bell Hooks

  Book, Reading, People

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Books + friendship = book club

  Kristin Hannah

  Book, Clubs

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• Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Friendship, Education

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Wine, Clubs

  Jami Attenberg (2013). “The Middlesteins”, p.103, Profile Books

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• I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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

  Adriana Trigiani

  Book, World, Clubs

  Interview with Margo Hammond, Ellen Heltzel, www.goodhousekeeping.com. August 1, 2005.

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• 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

  Book, Avid, Library

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• 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

  Book, Years, Lunch

  Source: wwd.com

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• 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

  Book, Library, Suggestions

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• There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.

  Abraham Verghese

  Meaningful, Book, Writing

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• We’re all in the end-of-our-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

  Book, Finals, Clubs

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

  Tim Federle

  Mother, Book, Wine

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• 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

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• Everyone needs some time to unwind. There are even coloring book clubs popping up in every state now, so it's not such an isolating experience. People are getting together specifically to color. It's amazing.

  Alan Robert

  Book, Color, People

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.

  Ali Liebegott

  Book, Reading, Gay

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• This is a jury of your peers. They watch the same TV movies. They belong to Oprah’s Book Club. You can take any monster, slap a bad dad into his past, and all of a sudden he’s just another lost soul, lashing out. And you were the poor lady that got in the way. They’ll argue you lacked compassion. You were the one who took things too far.

  Jeremy Robert Johnson

  Dad, Book, Compassion

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• Isn't that interesting. All the book clubs. I've never belonged to one.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Interesting, Clubs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• …She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Bridges, Soul

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• Bush has not read enough books to have a developed moral sense. The fewer books you read, the easier it is to become fundamental. In some ways my antiwar stand here is also a stand on anti-literacy. Someone should get G.W. into a reading program, get him to join a book club. Have him read Hamlet, King Lear.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Book, Two, Fifty

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• I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.

  David Liss

  Couple, Book, Philosophical

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• Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  Book, World, Clubs

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