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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
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Necessarily
Inspire
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Everything
Book
Need
Needs

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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
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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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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 have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.
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I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.
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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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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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