Book Club Quotes
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.
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.
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.
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.
Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym, your church, your temple, your city.
…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.
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.
At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?
There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology.
To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.
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.
I felt numb, I felt empty. I was a shell, an abandoned chrysalis, a tomb lying in wait for the dead
There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.
One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.
We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.
The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.