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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
Erica Jong
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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
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New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
Erica Jong
But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
Erica Jong
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
Erica Jong
Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
Erica Jong
Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
Erica Jong
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.
Erica Jong
I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
Erica Jong
Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?
Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
Erica Jong
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
Erica Jong
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
Erica Jong
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
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
Erica Jong
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
Erica Jong
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Erica Jong
Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
Erica Jong
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
Erica Jong
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
