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You are always naked when you start writing you are always as if you had never written anything before you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

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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
Never
Written
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Knowing
Start
Become
Beginner
Anything
Beginners
Without
Shakespeare
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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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 don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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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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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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