I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few…

Susan Sontag
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I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.
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It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making. ✨ Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). Barthes: … ▶
Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. ✨ Susan Sontag (2013). Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors, p.74, Penguin UK
Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty. ✨ Susan Sontag (2011). On Photography, p.92, Macmillan
Perversity is the muse of modern literature. ✨ 1966 Against Interpretation,'Camus' Notebooks'.
What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship - ✨ Susan Sontag (2009). Reborn: Jou … ▶

I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.

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