Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns'… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I had gone to graduate school because I loved literature, but in graduate school you were not supposed to study literature. You… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“...readers who think I have answers when all I have are a few pointed questions...” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
