Conversations with Susan Sontag Quotes

“Most of my reading is rereading.”
― Susan Sontag, Conversations with Susan Sontag

“A six-week trip to China in 1973 convinced me—if I needed convincing—that the autonomy of the aesthetic is something to be protected, and cherished, as indispensable nourishment to intelligence. But a decade-long residence in the 1960s, with its inexorable conversion of moral and political radicalisms into “style,” has convinced me of the perils of over- generalizing the aesthetic view of the world.”
― Susan Sontag, Conversations with Susan Sontag

“I discovered a lot of writers in the Modern Library editions, which were sold in a Hallmark-card store, and I used to save up my allowance and would buy them all. I even bought real lemons like Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations [laughing]. I thought everything in the Modern Library must be great.”
― Susan Sontag, Conversations with Susan Sontag