652 Quotes by Erica Jong

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

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

Surviving means being born over and over.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

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.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

The desire for magic cannot be eradicated. Even the most supposedly rational people attempt to practice magic in love and war. We simultaneously possess the most primitive of brain stems and the most sophisticated of cortices. The imperatives of each coexist uneasily.

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