Erica Jong Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

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

  Erica Jong

  Book, Reading, Profound

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

  Erica Jong

  Reading, Book, Strikes

• A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

  Erica Jong

  Mother, Baby, Jobs

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.43, Penguin

• 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

• I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.

  Erica Jong

  Believe, Reading, People

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