Club Quote by Anna Todd

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience.…

— Jonathan Lethem

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…

— Bell Hooks

I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

— Jeanette Winterson

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

— Brian Lumley

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

— John Hodgman

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

— Linda Sue Park

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…

— Ann Packer

“Reading is a full contact sport; we crash up against the wave of words with all of our intellectual, imaginative, and emotional resources. What…

— Thomas C. Foster

You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

— Nora Roberts

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

— Raymond Chandler

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them…

— Lynn Coady