Susan SontagThe writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.
About This Quote
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. The author is a person who loves solitude and quiet and is not interested in the idea of being a part of the world. The author is also a person who has been punished for doing something bad and has been forced to hide from the world.
Some Similar Quotes
- And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
- The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them -- words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But...
More Quotes By Susan Sontag
- 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.
- That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.
- A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]
- The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.
- Writing is a mysterious activity.