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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
Nonfiction
Simultaneously
Fiction
Hard

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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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Love gives without taking
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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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