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" It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork. "

Erica Jong

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" Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. "

Erica Jong

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Talent

" 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 put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen. "

" I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. "

" Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. "

" As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living. "

" Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society. "

" Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. "

Erica Jong

Feel

Man

" I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. "

" Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love. "

" It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. "

" Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. "

" What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. "

" Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. "

Erica Jong

Successful

Sometimes

" I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity. "

" We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. "

" People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. "

" Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. "

" When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love. "

Erica Jong

Pictures

People

" Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. "

" I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore. "

" 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 am. "

" In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love. "

" Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. "

" I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid. "

" I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. "

" I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else. "

" Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember? "

" Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? "

" I've never been able to control my public image. "

" I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on. "

Erica Jong

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World