Quote

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

Erica Jong

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Something
Went
Finishing
Years
Courses
Sending
Way
Course
Suspect
Written
Suspects
Times
Avoiding
Anything
Poems
Many
Finish
Writing
Judged

More quotes by Erica Jong

Image
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
Erica Jong
Image
Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
Erica Jong
Image
Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
Erica Jong
Image
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
Erica Jong
Image
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Erica Jong
Image
I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
Erica Jong
Image
The soul is awakened through service.
Erica Jong
Image
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
Erica Jong
Image
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
Erica Jong
Image
Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!
Erica Jong
Image
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong
Image
A wet dream in the mind of New York.
Erica Jong
Image
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
Erica Jong
Image
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
Erica Jong
Image
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Erica Jong
Image
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
Erica Jong
Image
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
Erica Jong
Image
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
Erica Jong
Image
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica Jong
Image
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong