Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [ Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and impolite, who impress… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I didn't think of myself as importing, I thought it was more interesting to write about things people didn't know about than… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art - like physical beauty in a person - is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artistic or… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Why not eliminate schooling between age 12-16? It’s biologically + psychologically too turbulent a time to be cooped up inside, made to sit all… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
