Erica Jong Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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 use this experience in a book.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  erica jong “fear of flying”

• A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Reading, Profound

• 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 must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

  Erica Jong

  Real, Book, World

• A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

  Erica Jong

  Reading, Book, Strikes

• 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 why feminism had become a dirty word.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Dirty

• A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Self, Censorship

  Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.36, Grove Press

• I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Book, Lasts

  Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.32, Grove Press

• The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Writing, Men

• 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 times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Hands, People

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

• The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

  Erica Jong

  Distance, Book, Writing

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Sep 18, 2012

• I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Inspire, Trying

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

• It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Waiting, Shelves

  Erica Jong (2013). “Sappho's Leap: A Novel”, p.383, Open Road Media

• Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.

  Erica Jong

  Sweet, Sex, Real

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.89, Penguin

• 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 are going down or disappearing.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Writing, Hands

• Home is where your books are.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Home

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.165, Penguin

• 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 a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Book, Writing

• All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

  Erica Jong

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.235, Penguin

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