Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
The book you don't read won't help.
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.
Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
I mean, I'm on a comic book. I'm in a video game. This is not real life.
I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.
'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.
My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.
I'm hot on the Jewish book club circuit. How many black authors do you know who can say that?
I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.
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.
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.
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.
