Susan Sontag Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• 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.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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

• Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the values of reading and inwardness are so strenuously challenged, literature is freedom.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading, Literature, Passports

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.266, 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

• Most of my reading is rereading.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading, Rereading

• To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.

  Susan Sontag

  Reading, Frustration, World

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

• 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 He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.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 quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Taken, Reading

  Source: ctheory.net

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