I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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