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I feel that books choose me when they’re ready. I can’t force them into being.

— Erika Sánchez Interview with Latino Book Review (2018)

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Kids really do see through our bull and have shorter attention spans.

interview (2022)

We all see different versions of the same thing. I have written the truest book I was capable of creating. It's the way I've always made sense of the world and my life.

Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir (2022)

A lot of people asked: Why did you start with your vagina? Because I don’t think it’s nasty.

Interview (2022)

I mostly find myself writing in Spanglish. I think and feel in both languages.

Interview with Latino Book Review (2018)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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