652 Quotes by Erica Jong

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

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

I do a lot of teaching... and so I think I know how hard it is for young writers, how they have to work two jobs to survive.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.

It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.

I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.