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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.

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
Someone
Pocket
Mean
Pockets
Clarity
Pick
Picks
Wants
Language
Means
Murky

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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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