Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
If you don't risk anything you risk even more.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow talent to the dark place where it leads.
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.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everthing for. 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.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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 risk anything, you risk even more.