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Writer Quotes by Susan Sontag
- A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.
- To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
- My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
- A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
- To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.
- Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
- The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.
- What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.
- If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to…
- The writer must be four people: 1) The nut, the obsede 2) The moron 3) The stylist 4) The critic. 1 supplies the material; 2…
- Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream…
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