Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. Susan Sontag More Quotes by Susan Sontag More Quotes From Susan Sontag I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature. Susan Sontag audience literature writing Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. Susan Sontag speech form silence Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through. Susan Sontag pieces writing doors The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. Susan Sontag truth opposites lying Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody. Susan Sontag touching writing talking The only interesting ideas are heresies Susan Sontag heresy ideas interesting I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive. Susan Sontag elements alive writing There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work. Susan Sontag body taken writing The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood. Susan Sontag feelings writing art Perversity is the muse of modern literature. Susan Sontag muse modern literature In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret. Susan Sontag good-films film Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. Susan Sontag funny science book The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. Susan Sontag time beauty past The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. Susan Sontag expansion possibility liberty Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. Susan Sontag ambition doe work Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. Susan Sontag photography order book Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. Susan Sontag women revenge art A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. Susan Sontag cousin often-is photography Art is a form of consciousness. Susan Sontag consciousness form art But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures Susan Sontag nostalgic
