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.
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
Susan Sontag
My emotional life: dialectic between craving for privacy and need to submerge myself in a passionate relationship to another.
The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.
Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.
The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
Susan Sontag
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag
Mad people = People who stand alone and burn.
I'm attracted to them because they give me permission to do the same.
