Erica Jong Quotes

It's okay to embark on writing because you think it will get you love. At least it gets you going, but it doesn't last. After a while you realize that no one cares that much. Then you find another reason: money. You can dream on that one while the bills pile up. Then you think: "Well, I'm the sensitive type. I have to express myself." Do me a favor. Don't be so sensitive. Be tough. It will get you further along when you get rejected. Finally, you just do it because you happen to like it.

I love writing. I've pursued it with a passion.

If I'm not writing, I'm not fully living. It has become the essential element that defines who I am.

Write what you love and love what you write.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.

The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or what's most popular.

I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

In the beginning, I didn't have to love them, my acts. It was mostly about being successful, getting a trophy, and making some money. Now if I don't love the idea of it, I don't work on it.

I don't do what I do to get nominated. I do what I do because I love it.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

Every creativity has a motive. Either one does it for money, for fame, or for passion. My energies go out for passion.

I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging ditches or something. Get a life. You'll learn a lot more, and you won't write a lot of rotten poetry.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.

I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. It's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

The only reason to write is from love.

We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Because we really don't love what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems, if you really loved it you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not.

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who write; they are not writers. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. Writing is selfish and contradictory in its terms. First of all, you're writing for an audience of one, you must please the one person you're writing for. Yourself.

I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be.

At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it.

What I've learned from the Pixar guys is 'If you work for the love of what you're doing, it's always going to come out right.' Cause if you're working for a paycheck then it's not going to work in the long run; it's not going to feed your heart and soul.

Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.