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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

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
Given
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Soul
Always
Wrought
Maker
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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.
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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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certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
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