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 Sontag'Camp' is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated.
Susan SontagThe purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.
Susan SontagNorman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.
Susan Sontag