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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
- “The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.”Susan Sontag
- “My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.”Susan Sontag
- “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mor…”Susan Sontag
- “So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, ha…”Susan Sontag
Generosity: more sayings
- “He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is…”Henry Taylor
- “Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”Fanny Burney
- “I made a deal with myself that no matter where I go, if I see a street performer, I'd tip them. It's sweet to…”Andy Grammer
Explore Forgiveness
- “The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and merc…”John Cameron Mitchell
- “Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy…”Margaret Mitchell
- “Sometimes we learn the most about forgiveness when we realize how desperately we need it ourselves.”Glad Munaiseche
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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