If 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 JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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It 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.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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