It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone. Erica Jong More Quotes by Erica Jong More Quotes From Erica Jong All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness. Erica Jong comfortingmightbelieve I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes. Erica Jong boringdiarieswriting I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you. Erica Jong say-i-love-youwantlove-you 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 homewritingreality Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it. Erica Jong plotinteresting Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. Erica Jong idolsinspirationalmean As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft. Erica Jong realbookworld I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil. Erica Jong communicationevilthinking Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past. Erica Jong wittyfunnypast The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning. Erica Jong notebookdreammorning The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel Erica Jong painjoylove Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough. Erica Jong demandcreativitytalent My grandchildren are fabulous and funny. Erica Jong fabulousgrandchildrenfunny Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. Erica Jong worst-enemyselfmen Art is always an energy exchange. Erica Jong art-isenergyart Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child. Erica Jong childrenartthinking Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan? Erica Jong orphansoulearth Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love. Erica Jong I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves ! Erica Jong black-and-whiteplaymemories There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I'd been treated by at least six of them. And married a seventh. Erica Jong viennamarriedsix
