Erica Jong Quotes
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
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Sex has the unparalleled power to make us absurd to ourselves. It also has the power to make us understand transcendence.
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The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.
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Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Henry Miller was such a scribomaniac that even when he lived in the same house as Lawrence Durrell they often exchanged letters. For most of his life, Henry wrote literally dozens of letters a day to people he could have easily engaged in conversation - and did. The writing process, in short, was essential. As it is to all real writers, writing was life and breath to him. He put out words as a tree puts out leaves.
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.
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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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The sexuality doesn't end. It really doesn't. You're sexual your whole life, if you're a sexual person.