Erica Jong quotes
Erica Jong is an American novelist, poet, and essayist, best known for her groundbreaking novel "Fear of Flying." Her candid explorations of female sexuality and identity sparked widespread conversation and cultural change. She continues to influence generations with her bold and honest literary voice. Here are 161 of her quotes:
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.
Erica Jong