Quotes by : Erica Jong

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always....

What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the....

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future....

If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes....

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

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while....

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems....

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not?