Jeannette Walls Quotes

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.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.

It's a novel experience to have one of my books read by a reading group.

I can't tell you how excited I was when I joined my first book club, but I can tell you how much I immediately regretted it.

I love book clubs. I just hate reading and talking to people.

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

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

There's a remarkable power about reading together, reading collectively, that's brought out by reading groups.

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 nice that that is getting attention from the media.

I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

Here's the thing: Authors live or die by recommendations. [That's one of the reason I review so many books on Goodreads.] Giving books you love good reviews is one of the nicest things you can do for an author. What's more it's good for the entire community.

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do in my friendships. "Here, you have to read this, you have to read this."

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

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.

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, "I'm glad you're reading this book" or "I'm glad you're getting this book" or "Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead."