Erica Jong
Erica Jong
Erica Jongis an American novelist and poet, known particularly for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying. The book became famously controversial for its attitudes towards female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. According to Washington Post, it has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 March 1942
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.
It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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.
language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.
Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.