652 Quotes by Erica Jong

In loving life you love what can’t survive...

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It’s really dangerous and ultimately destroys you as a writer if you start thinking about responses to your work or what your audience needs.

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels. – Tennessee Williams.

And what if I don’t want forgiveness?

It’s important to know what you’re going to spend your life on, and the only way you’re going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

Because When you write about people, you inevitably offend – but if you write about animals, the evil do not recognize themselves but the good understand immediately.

I believe that there’s a force of life in the universe, and that when we’re writing or making music or painting, we’re likely to connect with that flow.

Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

I don’t cook. My mother didn’t cook. My daughter doesn’t cook.