You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Will you ever? I dont think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
