652 Quotes by Erica Jong


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    If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

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    When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

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    the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

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    I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

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    A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

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    Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.

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