Erica Mann Jong Quotes

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."

"When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love"

"No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."

"Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are."