All SUSAN SONTAG Quotes about “Literature”

“Perversity is the muse of modern literature.”
“I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.”
“Translation is the circulatory system of the world's literatures”
“What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up”
“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.”
“writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. Literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.”
“The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.”
“Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.”
“Literature usually begets literature.”

More Susan Sontag quote about:

You may also like:

Annie Leibovitz
Photographer
Edward Said
Professor
Elfriede Jelinek
Playwright
Joan Didion
Author
John Berger
Art critic
Maria Irene Fornes
Playwright
Norman Mailer
Novelist
Philip Rieff
Cultural critic
Roland Barthes
Philosopher
Umberto Eco
Essayist
Walter Benjamin
Literary critic
Nancy Kates
Filmmaker