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
Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on! — 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
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or… — 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
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments. — 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
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 am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms… — 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
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
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
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
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
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — 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
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
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
I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. — 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
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
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
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
I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart.… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and… — 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
“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
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
Give advice to your children while they're young enough to believe you know what you're talking about. — Erica Jong Copy Share
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. — Erica Jong Copy Share
I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. — Erica Jong Copy Share
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
“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
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em. — Erica Jong Copy Share
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
Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. — Erica Jong Copy Share
