Susan Sontag Quotes

[Perhaps this is a good thing. And potentially dangerous for a novelist. The dangers are obvious. A deadening earnestness and political self-awareness that do not meet the delight component that is a story's bottom line. Too much ideological hand-wringing. We've all sat through readings by authors whose politics we admire but whose prose cannot hold us. We are reminded of the definition of] camp ... a seriousness that fails. - Susan Sontag

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Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life -- its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness -- conjoin to dull our sensory faculties. - Susan Sontag

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste. - Susan Sontag

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. - Susan Sontag