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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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