Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
ERICA JONGCourage is the only Magic worth having.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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