Erica Jong

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1942 age 0

   Born

2. 1998 age 56

   CreditCelebrity

3. 2005 age 63

   CreditInside Deep Throat

• LDLeonardo DiCaprio1 title
• FCFrancis Ford Coppola1 title
• KBKenneth Branagh1 title
• WHWood Harris1 title
• DBDylan Baker1 title
• ISIan Somerhalder1 title
• RHRon Howard1 title
• BGBrian Grazer1 title
• DHDennis Hopper1 title
• JSJ. K. Simmons1 title

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• I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.

  Erica Jong, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I have had the experience of having my sister get up at a meeting at Columbia University, where these scholars from all over the world were anointing Fear of Flying as a classic. And my sister got up and said, "Erica Jong has ruined my life — with her books."

  Erica Jong, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My advice to a young writer: Never give up. Read everything you can read — particularly the writers who move you deeply. Study how they do what they do. Read and read and read ... and write and write and write.

  Erica Jong, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...

  Erica Jong, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

  Erica Jong, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.

  Erica Jong, CC BY-SA 4.0