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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

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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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Familiar
Feels
Anxiety
Never
Calm
Begin
Written
Morning

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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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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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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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The soul is awakened through service.
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