Quotes by : Susan Sontag

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything....

Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.....

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism:....

The only interesting ideas are heresies

The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into....

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs—especially....

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects....