Erica Jong Quotes
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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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It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.
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I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
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I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell me how to become a poet. Tell me what to do." . . . What makes you a poet is a gift for language, an ability to see into the heart of things, and an ability to deal with important unconscious material. When all these things come together, you're a poet. But there isn't one little gimmick that makes you a poet. There isn't any formula for it.
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Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.