Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“The truth is: nobody bothers to kill poets in America. It's enough to buy them in universities. Undead.” — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru?… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the… — 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
