Books Quote by Susan Sontag Download Open image ““You have to create your own space which has a lot of silence in it and a lot of books.”” — Susan Sontag ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Silence Space
“Naturally you're out of book space. Everyone is always out of book space. If you're not out of book space, you're probably not worth… — Kinsfire Copy Share Image
“Most people do not need more space; they need less stuff, combined with a rethink of the space they do have.” — Michelle Ogundehin Copy Share Image
“Find room in your heart, and space on your bookshelf, for new authors.” — Richard Abbott-Brailey Copy Share Image
“You were a quiet man, yet you took up a vast amount of silent space and that was what I missed.” — Tatiana de Rosnay Copy Share Image
“I enjoy books. No room is fit for occupation without a lining of books.” — Martin Booth Copy Share Image
“There is no endless silence of infinite space, for in reality there is no space, no silence and no void.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Space is a precious thing to waste. You don't want to fill your house with anything that doesn't directly add to your happiness.” — Sherry Petersik Copy Share Image
“The idea is to make the space around you into a zone where nothing mortal can survive.” — K. J. Parker Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder how I’d tell this if I didn’t have so many books rattling around inside me. The truth is both a vast… — Julie Buntin Copy Share Image
“Create some clear space and then you will know exactly what to do.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“I've squeezed as many bookcases in this tiny space as possible. Being surrounded by books and magazines makes me feel calm. It makes the… — Angelo Surmelis 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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