Erica Jong Quotes

Writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

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• Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Job
  • Career

• Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Power
  • Guitar

• Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Part

• Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Impact
  • Hunger
  • Productivity

• Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Know
  • Teaching
  • Coach

• My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Daughter
  • Really

• If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricature of black culture and black masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Smart

• Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Family

• I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Friend

• I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

  

  Asafa Powell

• Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Future
  • Choices

• I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Space

• Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Life
  • Long
  • Business

• Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

  

  Robert Falcon Scott
  • Work
  • Business
  • Dog

• I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Live
  • Art
  • Fear

• Don't let something hurtful in your past hold you back from what you want to do. Be brave.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Want
  • Past
  • Brave

• I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Up
  • Job
  • New York

• I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • World
  • Science
  • Writers

• Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Wells
  • Written
  • Subjects

• Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

  

  Raymond Carver
  • Writers
  • Communicate
  • Poets

• Writers do not choose their subjects; their subjects choose them.

  

  Erica Jong
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