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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

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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Money
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Writing
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Cynical
Love
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Writers
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Solitude is un-American.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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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.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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