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Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on!

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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
Luckily
Toes
Edge
Edges
Writers
Fire
Turns
Inferno
Always
Licking

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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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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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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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