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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.

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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
Torture
Writers
Moments
Self
Doubters
Brief
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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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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.
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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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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
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tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn't have to choose. And I believe that's always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.
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