You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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.
ERICA JONGIt’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGFreedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
ERICA JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
ERICA JONGIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
ERICA JONGEvery time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGSouls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONGThere is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
ERICA JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONGI don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
ERICA JONG