No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Erica Jong More Quotes by Erica Jong More Quotes From Erica Jong Whenever I go anywhere but Italy for a vacation, I always feel vaguely disappointed, as if I have made a mistake. Erica Jong vacation made mistake From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit. Erica Jong falling-in-love crazy country Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints. Erica Jong venice cities dream 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 writing book language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us. Erica Jong poet language persons Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile. Erica Jong laughter silence writing Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak. Erica Jong outcomes matter america It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless. Erica Jong pain writing joy Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint. Erica Jong irony journalism doe Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone. Erica Jong yield artist believe Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room. Erica Jong cities journey sea Poetry is fired by love. Erica Jong poetry-is Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities. Erica Jong venice air reality Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right. Erica Jong generations lost thinking As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps. Erica Jong matter steps long You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you. Erica Jong voice writing giving When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life. Erica Jong writing way thinking Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? Erica Jong feminist passion fashion The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy. Erica Jong momentum law firsts The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach. Erica Jong worst lows inspirational
