#iv

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#bound #could #creative #creative life #easily

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep. ↗

— Erica Jong

#ambivalent #babies #being #being human #best

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. ↗

— Erica Jong

#adored #attacked #become #book #daughters

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. ↗

— Erica Jong

#earth #household #housewives #perhaps #sense

All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes. ↗

— Erica Jong

#forebears #grandfather #living #mother #painted

I remember everything but forgive anyway. ↗

— Erica Jong

#everything #forgive #i #i remember #remember

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. ↗

— Erica Jong

#bankrupt #book #disappearing #down #effectively

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#good #good men #illustrate #live #men

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#deceived #fortune #good #good fortune #ill

When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me. ↗

— Scott Joplin

#dead #going #i #me #people