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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
Writing
Naked
Always
Wrote
Never
Written
Would
Knowing
Start
Become
Beginner
Anything
Beginners
Without
Shakespeare

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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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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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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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