Susan Sontag Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• 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

• I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Follow Your Dreams

  Christine Allison, Susan Sontag (1978). “The benefactor: a novel”, Delta

• Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Witty, World

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.46, Macmillan

• Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Reading, Writing

• If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Self, Literature

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.147, Macmillan

• The "happening" operates by creating an asymmetrical network of surprises, without climax or consummation, this is the alogism of dreams rather than the logic of most art.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Art, Creating

• That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, World, Becoming

  Source: ctheory.net

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