A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONGLove is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONGDo you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
ERICA JONGHow could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGIt’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGAnd the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
ERICA JONGIs perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONGWe are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONGMy mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGIn loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONGLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONG