I've learned a LOT from Susan Sontag #BOTD over the years...
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world.”
- #AgainstInterpretation
16 January 1933 - 28 December 2004
"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
Susan Sontag, 1933-2004
“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, born 16 January 1933
#susansontag#reading#writing
"I discovered the works of Bowden later in life, shortly after he died of a sudden illness in 2014 at the age of 69.
I can’t remember how I found him but as soon as I read the first few lines of one of his books, I knew I was reading one of the most fierce writers of our time. His words flowed with juice and vitality.
Unpretentious and bold, this is what I’ve been so desperately looking for in our bland contemporary society — an unapologetic truthteller with prose like no other."
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‘A great book should leave you with many experiences,
and slightly exhausted at the end.
You live several lives while reading.’
William Styron
James L.W. West: Conversations with William Styron, 1885
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