Art is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONGYou are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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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 have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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