652 Quotes by Erica Jong

If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.

I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

True intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.