Susan Sontag

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born

January 16, 1933 in New York, New York, The United States

died

December 28, 2004

gender

female

website

http://www.susansontag.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Politics

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Jewish American literary theorist, novelist, filmmaker, and feminist activist.

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Books by Susan Sontag

Average rating: 3.93 · 17,139 ratings · 1,436 reviews · 90 distinct works

	On Photography 3.97 avg rating — 3,680 ratings — published 1973 — 27 editions	My rating:
	Regarding the Pain of Others 3.93 avg rating — 1,544 ratings — published 2003 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Against Interpretation and Other Essays 4.07 avg rating — 1,287 ratings — published 1964 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors 3.90 avg rating — 754 ratings — published 1989 — 12 editions	My rating:
	The Volcano Lover: A Romance 3.45 avg rating — 599 ratings — published 1992 — 29 editions	My rating:
	In America 3.20 avg rating — 597 ratings — published 2000 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag, David Rieff (Editor) 3.95 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Illness as Metaphor 3.91 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions	My rating:
	I, etcetera 3.60 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1963 — 11 editions	My rating:
	At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag, David Rieff, Paolo Dilonardo (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	My rating:

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Series by Susan Sontag

Journals of Susan Sontag (2 books)
by Susan Sontag, David Rieff (Editor)

3.93 avg rating — 422 ratings

Quotes by Susan Sontag

“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

tags: hit , sages , thinking , violence

570 people liked it

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: action , attention , concentration , connection , eagerness , inspiration , intelligence , observation , vitality

487 people liked it

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: photography , time

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