From today's PW Daily for Booksellers, some choice authors' quotes from NACS-CAMEX:

Karen Joy Fowler (The Jane Austen Book Club):

"When I told my book club that I was writing about a book club, it seemed in response that they became more colorful and actually read the books and had interesting things to say--as if they were thinking this would look good on page. When we read Emma, none of them liked the book, and afterwards I became crosser and crosser and decided I could make up a better book club."

Andrei Codrescu (Wakefield):

"Readers are strange." (After recalling conversations with a woman who pretended to be an old girlfriend of his by using information gleaned from his memoirs.) (ed.'s note -- Sittenfeld's wet dream?)

David Baldacci (Hour Game):

"So many lawyers are writing fiction. That's what I did as a lawyer."