Susan Sontag

Date of Birth:

16-Jan-1933

Nationality:

United States

Profession:

Writer

Susan Sontag was a renowned Jewish-American writer, who was also a prolific filmmaker, teacher and political activist. She discovered her undying love for books during her teenage. She started off her career by writing essays for some renowned newspapers and soon published the most notable essay of her career titled “Notes on Camp” which brought her many accolades. This encouraged her to publish her debut novel titled ‘The Benefactor’ where her experimental way of writing failed to fascinate the masses. She further published some successful short-stories and novels before coming up with her first best-selling novel called ‘The Volcano Lover’. After this, she proved to be a versatile writer as she successfully fascinated the masses in different genres of fiction and non-fiction. Her successful works include ‘Essays’, and 'In America’, which won ‘National Book Award for Fiction’. Apart from this, she has also proved her mettle on the big screen by working as a writer and director for a couple of successful movies including ‘Letter from Venice’. Her writings, essays, work, thoughts, books and novels are still very popular among the masses. We bring to you a collection of quotes and sayings by Susan Sontag whose writings and thoughts covered various subjects and viewpoints.

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I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

My library is an archive of longings.

Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all

Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art