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 of becoming a writer. Susan Sontag More Quotes by Susan Sontag More Quotes From Susan Sontag Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. Susan Sontag simple self lying Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently. Susan Sontag reading waiting book Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure. Susan Sontag regard treasure patient Everything has changed and nothing is changed. Susan Sontag things-have-changed changed Few ever see what is not already inside their heads. Susan Sontag The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism. Susan Sontag most-amazing phenomenon idealism God, living is enormous! Susan Sontag enormous Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture. Susan Sontag mass-culture age matter The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured. Susan Sontag tuberculosis cancer medicine The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction. Susan Sontag literature may book 'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. Susan Sontag style vision world If an irreducible distinction between theatre and cinema does exist, it may be this: Theatre is confined to a logical or continuous use of space. Cinemahas access to an alogical or discontinuous use of space. Susan Sontag theatre space doe Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. Susan Sontag details life-is forever Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. Susan Sontag self mean lying The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past. Susan Sontag quality photograph past ... the place we assign to pornography depends on the goals we set for our own consciousness, our own experience. Susan Sontag pornography consciousness goal The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent areseen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways. Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with glitter in his hair. Susan Sontag hair men people ... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve. Susan Sontag photography purpose art Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals. Susan Sontag individual type theatre Courage is morally neutral. Susan Sontag
