Quote

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

Erica Jong

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Mind
Logic
Knowledge
Faith
Heart

More quotes by Erica Jong

Image
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
Erica Jong
Image
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.
Erica Jong
Image
Solitude is un-American.
Erica Jong
Image
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
Erica Jong
Image
I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
Erica Jong
Image
Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
Erica Jong
Image
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.
Erica Jong
Image
Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
Erica Jong
Image
Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
Erica Jong
Image
I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
Erica Jong
Image
Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
Erica Jong
Image
Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
Erica Jong
Image
Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
Erica Jong
Image
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
Erica Jong
Image
The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
Erica Jong
Image
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
Erica Jong
Image
I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again.
Erica Jong
Image
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
Erica Jong
Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
Erica Jong
Image
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