Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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
-
-
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONG -
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.
ERICA JONG -
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
ERICA JONG -
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONG -
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONG -
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONG -
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONG -
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONG -
Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONG -
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
ERICA JONG -
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONG -
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONG -
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONG -
Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONG -
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONG