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It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

Erica Jong

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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
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Forbidden
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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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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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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