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About Susan Sontag
American writer and critic
Susan Sontag was an American writer and critic. She worked mainly in essays, and also wrote novels. Her first major work was the essay "Notes on 'Camp'" in 1964. She is best known for critical books such as Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, and Regarding the Pain of Others, as well as the short story "The Way We Live Now" and the novels The Volcano Lover and In America. Her work often explored culture, images, and the experience of illness and suffering.
More from Susan Sontag (146 quotes) →Other sayings from Susan Sontag
- “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”Susan Sontag
- “Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum.”Susan Sontag
- “For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything…”Susan Sontag
- “No such thing as a temptation. A temptation is a desire, a lust like any other - but one that we regret after…”Susan Sontag
Consciousness: more sayings
- “Don't restrain yourself to mundaneness. You're subject to consciousness that makes you more than animalistic.”T.F. Hodge
- “Experience has taught us that material wants know no natural bounds, that they will expand without end unless…”Robert Skidelsky Edward Skidelsky
- “If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.”John Scalzi
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Books by Susan Sontag
On Photography
2001
Regarding the Pain of Others
2017
Against Interpretation
2001
Illness as metaphor
1978
Death kit
2002