3 Quotes & Sayings By Erin Wunker

Erin Wunker is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of "The Bourbon Thief." Her short story, "The Night He Was Found," was named a finalist for the 2015 RWA RITA Award. She is an award-winning journalist and author of two historical romances, "The Bourbon Thief" and "The Moon and the Stars," and her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. She currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and two daughters.

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Still, when I think of early friendships, I think not of people but of books. Books were my friends, and more often than not, the characters in the books were my imaginary friends, who stepped out of the pages and walked wth me to school or sat in bed with me, talking when I was meant to be asleep. What I mean is reading was my friends. And also I mean that I learned about friendship - patience, slowness, listening, care - from reading and from reading about friendship between people. . Erin Wunker
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So one of my responsibilities, as a white, cis-gendered woman, is to learn how to be a traitor to the 'joys' of patriarchal culture that I experience, however unconsciously. Erin Wunker