"Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart."

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Erica Jong

#Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible”
“Pitching is a priority.”
“I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.”
“Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that,”
“English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.”
“Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work.”
“The writer - more especially the novelist - who has not, at one moment or another, considered his publisher unworthy of him, has still to be conceived.”
“Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.”

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