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 JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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 want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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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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