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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Hard
Nonfiction
Simultaneously
Fiction

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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Solitude is un-American.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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