Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGNo 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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 exhortation.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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If 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.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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