What did Erica Jong mean by: A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match. - Erica Jong Author · USA Copy
+ Because I loved myself, I was loved. Feraz Zeid, June 30, 2023December 12, 2023, Erica Jong, God, 0 - Erica Jong Author · USA
+ Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Erica Jong, Conformity, Restriction, Rigidity, 0 - Erica Jong Author · USA
+ Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket. Feraz Zeid, July 31, 2023December 12, 2023, Erica Jong, Pockets, 0 - Erica Jong Author · USA
+ Plot is just a fancy way of saying ‘and then. Feraz Zeid, September 10, 2023December 24, 2023, Erica Jong, Fancy, Plot, 0 - Erica Jong Author · USA
+ Sex doesn’t disappear, it just changes forms. Feraz Zeid, August 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Erica Jong, Disappear, Form, Sex, 0 - Erica Jong Author · USA
+ At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Erica Jong, Self-awareness, 0 - Erica Jong Author · USA
+ Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Erica Jong, Birth, Loneliness, Poetry, 0 - Erica Jong Author · USA
+ Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it’s braver to die old. Explain Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Erica Jong, Aging, Brave, Mortality, 0 - Erica Jong Author · USA
That is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids. - Jean Craighead George
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading. - Lin Yutang Writer · China
