In a lot of writing or intellectual discourse we're starting to use that model: "Oh, this is where it comes from!" I would like to concentrate on work which is more resistant to that procedure, as I think fiction is.
Susan SontagThe work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.
Susan SontagDecline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.
Susan SontagI don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.
Susan Sontag