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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer…
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Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club…
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What's the point of having a book club if you don't get to eat brownies and drink wine?
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Start locally and build. Start small and grow. Start in your house, then move to your school, your book club, your gym,…
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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…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
— Yann Martel
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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
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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,…
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I think solitude is a really positive thing. I cherish solitude immensely. In today’s society, there’s so much pressure to communicate, eat…
— Nicky Wire
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Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
— Adriana Trigiani
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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…
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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…
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