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 JONGIt’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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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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.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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