“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up… — 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… — 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… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I was in my study writing. I was learning how to go down into myself and salvage bits and pieces of the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns'… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction. — 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
