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
I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
Loving someone is a loss of freedom -- but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
I look forward and see myself look back.
Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.