Erica Jong
Erica Jong
Erica Jongis an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 March 1942
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Erica Jong quotes about
- divorce
- age
- generations
- getting-older
- way
- stories
- remembers-everything
- forgiving
- remember
- sexuality
- ends
- whole-life
- impossible-situations
- serious
- tools
- love-and-death
- paradox
- love-poetry
- long-distance-relationship
- mountain
- bed
- female-writers
- fiction
- lasts
- firsts
- morality
- betrayal
- betrayed
- betray
- time
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.
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.
In loving life you love what can't survive...
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.
Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
And what if I don't want forgiveness?
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.