Erica Jong Quotes

Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Style

• It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • World
  • Help
  • United States

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Work
  • Different

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Light
  • Elite

• I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Play

• I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Girl
  • Goal

• Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Done

• Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Business
  • Science

• I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Thought

• I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Nice

• You can't be a first-world economy in the 21st century if you're not on the path to a clean energy future.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • World
  • Future
  • Energy

• My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

  

  Ina Garten
  • World
  • She
  • Job

• Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • World
  • War
  • Solution

• There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.' Those are all put-downs. I'm all about pick-ups. You have to pick people up and pay it forward.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Art
  • Tea
  • Flowers

• I definitely know people who are shameless enough to give up basic values. I see this kind of art, and when I see it I feel ashamed. In China they treat art as some form of decoration, a self-indulgence. It is pretending to be art. It looks like art. It sells like art. But it is really a piece of shit.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• Yesterday I, along with a bipartisan Congressional Delegation of lawmakers, inspected the detention facilities at Guantanamo used to house individuals detained in the War on Terrorism.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • War
  • House

• Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Writing
  • Listening