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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.

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
Unless
Write
Writing
Think
Thinking
Parting
Partly

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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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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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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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I remember everything but forgive anyway.
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.
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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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