Erica JongNothing 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.
About This Quote
In the past, I have been lucky enough to be able to play with words. I was a professional writer before I became a full-time author. In college, writing was my main source of income because I worked at a local book store, where I could make a little money while going to school. Now that I am a full-time author, I love to write and make things happen. The more effort I put into making something happen, the more it has reality for me.
Some Similar Quotes
- And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
- The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But...
More Quotes By Erica Jong
- Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't...
- I have accepted fear as part of life — specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
- The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
- Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
- Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.