Susan Sontag Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Memories, Book

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

  Susan Sontag

  Book, Reading, Bigs

• My library is an archive of longings.

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  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.572, Macmillan

• Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

  Susan Sontag

  Funny, Book, Science

• Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Book, Order

  Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta

• Because each photograph is only a fragment, its moral and emotional weight depends on where it is inserted. A photograph changes according to the context in which it is seen: thus Smith's Minamata photographs will seem different on a contact sheet, in a gallery, in a political demonstration, in a police file, in a photographic magazine, in a book, on a living-room wall. Each o these situations suggest a different use for the photographs but none can secure their meaning.

  Susan Sontag

  Wall, Book, Emotional

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.94, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Education, Book, Heart

• The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.

  Susan Sontag

  Book, Literature, May

• Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading, Book, Waiting

• The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

  Susan Sontag

  Book, Lasts, Sentences

  Source: ctheory.net

• A good book is an education of the heart.

  Susan Sontag

  Book, Heart, Good Book

• Al forms of consensus about ''great'' books and ''perennial'' problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of ''what is already known.'' Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

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  Real, Book, Ideas

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

• Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.

  Susan Sontag

  Plato, Book, Self

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Regarding the Pain of Others”, p.96, Macmillan

• I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

  Susan Sontag

  Education, Silly, Book

• You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

  Susan Sontag

  Book, Writing, Levels

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