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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
Necessarily
Inspire
Read
Everything
Book
Need
Needs
Trying
Finish

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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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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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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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Love gives without taking
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we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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