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Erica Jong is a renowned American author, born on March 26, 1942. Her works, focusing on female perspectives and sexual liberation, have gained widespread popularity. Her representative works include 'How to Be a Woman'.

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

Book Reading Materials Reader Boxes Strikes

Author:Erica Jong

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

Book Grows Waiting Shelves

Book:Sappho's Leap: A Novel

Source: Sappho's Leap: A Novel

“Home is where your books are.”

Book Home

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“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.”

Knows Writing Heart Book Fall Reading Ocean Cards Maps Palms Casting Runes

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

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

Has Beens Book Self Industry Censorship Dreary Centralization Self Censorship

Book:The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller

Source: The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller

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

Believe Book Lasts I Believe Generations

Book:The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller

Source: The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller

“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.”

Men Writing Humans Littles Book Body Able Differences Human Beings Office Men And Women Driving Crops Writing A Book Tractors Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Erica Jong

“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.”

Writing Book Ideas Feelings Reader Aim Distance Remove Nutrients Membranes

Author:Erica Jong

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

Needs Trying Book Inspire

Author:Erica Jong

“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.”

Ifs Want Book Real Spirit Sex Easy Sweet Paper Worship Lays Jew Innocent Grass Strings Ink Glue Rogues Sap Sprouts Assemblage Real Books Ruffian Pheromones

Book:Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“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.”

Book School Mother Wonder Generations Feminism Daughter Dirty Reviews Graduates My Generation Naughty Adorable Graduate School Dirty Words Book Review

Author:Erica Jong

“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.”

Writing Years Book Hands Disappear Publishing

Author:Erica Jong

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Writing Kind Art Book Stories Literature Guts Spilling Story People

Author:Erica Jong

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Book Use Able Wonder Cry Standing Mist

Book:fear of flying

Source: fear of flying

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

Way Book Reading Profound Passive Literacy

Author: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 must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.”

World Want Feels Should Book Real Seems Return Reader Real World Lure Bereft

Author:Erica Jong

“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.”

People World Way Needs Book Hands Force Guides Passing Passings Cosmic Travel The World Long Book

Book:how to save your own life

Source: how to save your own life

About the Author

Born: March 26, 1942
Known for: Author
Quotes: 446

Books & Sources

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Fear of FiftyRelated source material

Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary EditionRelated source material

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Becoming Light: Poems New and SelectedRelated source material

What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica JongRelated source material

Seducing the Demon: Writing for My LifeRelated source material

Fear of Fifty: A Midlife MemoirRelated source material

Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in VeniceRelated source material

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