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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

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
Inspire
Read
Everything
Book
Need
Needs
Finish
Trying
Necessarily

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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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At certain historic moments, grandparents took on childrearing responsibilities. In many cultures, they still do. Chinese grandparents who are able to retire at 55 are seen all over Beijing bouncing grandbabies. In the United States, we can't afford to retire at 55.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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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.
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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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It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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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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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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