Erica Jong

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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.


— Erica Jong


#film

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.


— Erica Jong


#navelgazing #writing #experience

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.


— Erica Jong


#idea #means #millions #people #who

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.


— Erica Jong


#inspirational #inspirational

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.


— Erica Jong


#envy

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.


— Erica Jong


#even #more #risk #trouble #you

Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it...


— Erica Jong


#life

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.


— Erica Jong


#god #health #mind #philosophy #religion

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.


— Erica Jong


#love #loyalty #marriage #friendship

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


— Erica Jong


#writing-craft






About Erica Jong






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Erica Jong (née Mann; born March 26 1942) is an American author and teacher best known for her fiction and poetry.   Although it contains many sexual elements the book is mainly the account of a hypersensitive young woman in her late twenties trying to find who Erica Jong is and where Erica Jong is going. Career
A 1963 graduate of Barnard College with an M.