Quotes
Authors
Erica Jong
"Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper." --
Erica Jong
#Home Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Reality Quotes
“Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed”
“In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.”
“Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.”
“And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.”
“Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.”
“Nature actually works through intense cooperation. There is competition in nature , but it thrives through cooperation. We don't teach this to our kids. It's actually a violent ideology. It's why kids go into school and bully each other and god forbid do things even worse. Cooperation will become the marching orders of the human species or we're not going to make it.”
“And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War.”
“I have 3,000 penalty minutes. I don't need people dictating to me how to do my job.”
