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One writes not by will but by surrender.

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
Surrender
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Love gives without taking
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?
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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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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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