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 JONGHumor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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