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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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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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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.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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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.
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When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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