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Erica Jong on Writing
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“You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.”
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“It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.”
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“What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.”
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“I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.”
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