Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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