Subjects Quote by Erica Jong Download Open image “writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.” — Erica Jong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Subjects Writing
“People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you” — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for. — Antonio Munoz Molina 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
It appears to me that one great cause of our difference in opinion on subjects which we often discuss is that you have always… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making. — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a… — Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think what was special about 'Music by Prudence' was the classic story of the title subject's life path - from being an outcast… — Roger Ross Williams Copy Share Image
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
