850 Quotes by Susan Sontag

The only interesting ideas are heresies.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Most of my reading is rereading.

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

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world."[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

A work of art encountered as a work of art is an experience, not a statement or an answer to a question. Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing _in_ the world, not just a text or commentary _on_ the world.