When you are writing, you are - from society's point of view - only producing the first version which will then be processed and recycled.
Susan SontagThe aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Susan Sontag