I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONGConflict is the soul of literature.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Home is where your books are.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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