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 JONGLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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