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Book Quotes by Erica Jong
- As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world…
- Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the…
- My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder…
- I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances…
- 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 it's…
- I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to…
- A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
- It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the…
- When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to…
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