652 Quotes by Erica Jong

Being a daughter is only half the equation; bearing one is the other.

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.

I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer!

All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.

Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.