I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged . . . I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Source: In The Craft of Poetry, ed. William Packard, 1974.
-- Erica Jong, (Mar 26 1942-____), US author, poet; She is noted for Fear of Flying, 1973 and Parachutes and Kisses, 1984.