Seducing the Demon Quotes

“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.”
― Erica Jong, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.”
― Erica Jong, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“But the fact is, she [the muse] won't be summoned. She alights when it damn well pleases her. She falls in love with one artist, then deserts him for another. She's a real bitch!”
― Erica Jong, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

“i think it´s almost impossible for a young person to get into the head of an old person. if we could, the world would never go forward, nor would it change. the old are perhaps younger on mind than we. but their bodies have rebelled against them, and while we still have our eyes, legs, ears, we cannot imagine this. we think our material selves will last forever. the old know better. they know that nothing lasts but words, music and color. the rest is just a pile if bones and teeth and a dark spot on the ground.”
― Erica Jong, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life