652 Quotes by Erica Jong

She was mine and not-mine all at once. She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and the most terrifying.

I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.

The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study...

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.

If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.