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Lines on reading circles, wine, and shared enthusiasm.

Book club quotes here range from a mother's group that dissolved into opening wine to childhood memories of joke books from the Scholastic Book Club. The bookish theme continues in Book quotes.

Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026

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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Tim Federle

Nov 07, 2020

We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

Quotes by M. J. Rose

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Nov 07, 2020

I always loved jokes. It's such a dumb, facile thing to say, but it's true. I remember being a kid and getting those joke books from the Scholastic Book Club and loving comedy from a very young age.

Quotes by Josh Gondelman

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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Gary Shteyngart

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Nov 07, 2020

If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.

Quotes by Douglas Brunt

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Nov 07, 2020

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.

Quotes by Clay Shirky

One writer even imagines a 19th century Russian book club where members act like the pretentious noblemen in their reading, a playful nod to literary devotion. Explore more in Action quotes.

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