Quote

Love is everything it's cracked up to be

Erica Jong

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Love
Cracked
Everything

More quotes by Erica Jong

Image
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
Erica Jong
Image
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.
Erica Jong
Image
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.
Erica Jong
Image
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
Erica Jong
Image
We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
Erica Jong
Image
At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
Erica Jong
Image
We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
Erica Jong
Image
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.
Erica Jong
Image
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
Erica Jong
Image
The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
Erica Jong
Image
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Erica Jong
Image
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
Erica Jong
Image
The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
Erica Jong
Image
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Erica Jong
Image
This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
Erica Jong
Image
Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
Erica Jong
Image
You can't be creative and still be a good girl.
Erica Jong
Image
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.
Erica Jong
Image
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Erica Jong
Image
We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
Erica Jong