Erica Jong Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Thinking, Expression

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Mar 01, 2016

• There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Class, Feelings

• I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

  Erica Jong

  Character, Writing, Thinking

• The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.

  Erica Jong

  Distance, Book, Writing

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Sep 18, 2012

• I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives.

  Erica Jong

  Thinking, Reality, People

  "Erica Jong is back - as fearless as ever". Interview with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. September 08, 2015.

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