Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
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“Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.”
Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
“We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.”
Source: Sappho's Leap: A Novel
Source: What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power
Source: Fear of Fifty
“Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.”
Source: Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected
Source: Fanny
Source: how to save your own life
“Writing about sex turns out to be just writing about life.”
Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
Source: Parachutes & kisses
Source: Fear of Fifty
Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition
“A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.”
“Spring, / you are a pinking shears: you cut / fresh edges on the world.”
Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
“Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?”
“what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?”
Source: Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice
“Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.”
Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
Source: Fear of Fifty
Source: Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong
“Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.”
Source: Fear of Fifty
Source: The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller
Source: Parachutes & kisses
“writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.”
Source: Parachutes & kisses
Source: Conversations with Erica Jong
“One writes not by will but by surrender.”
Source: What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power
Source: Fear of Fifty
“... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?”
“Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.”
“A baby's mother also needs a mother.”
Source: Fear of Fifty