A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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