What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one… — 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
Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or… — 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
Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“All writing problems are psychological problems. Blocks usually stem from the fear of being judged. If you imagine the world listening, you'll… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“A woman's ability to achieve depends on childlessness or childcare. In America, where we don't believe in an underclass to do 'women's… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for… — 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
