Erica Jong Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

  Erica Jong

  Silence, Blunt, Instruments

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.153, Open Road Media

• When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Silence, Despair

• Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

  Erica Jong

  Voice, Silence, Guilt

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.153, Open Road Media

• Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

  Erica Jong

  Laughter, Writing, Silence

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.17, Penguin

• It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

  Erica Jong

  Years, Two, White

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Jan 31, 2012

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