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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
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Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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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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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.
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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.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Every time I catch myself saying, Oh no, you shouldn't try that, I think, Yes, I should.
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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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When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
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