Susan Sontag Quotes About Essays
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When you see your 40-page essay turned into a "hot tip" in one paragraph in Newsweek, you get anxious about the way your writing has been used.
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Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.
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I'm interested in the possibility of fiction which straddles narrative and essay.
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You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.
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I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.
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Some of the exuberance of my essay-writing has gone because I'm worried about the uses they could serve.
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