Susan Sontag Quotes

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

Introverts are offered keys to private gardens full of riches. To possess such a key is to tumble like Alice down her rabbit hole. She didn't choose to go to Wonderland - but she made of it an adventure that was fresh and fantastic and very much her own.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

The reason you want to act is to continue to explore every different part of the human psyche.

Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Tracey Emin's 'Strangeland' made me see that everything I have to be creative is inside of myself.

Your creative life can continue to just turn inside out and evolve in ways that you can't possibly imagine, whether or not you decide to be a parent. It doesn't matter.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

I have so much built up inside. To be able to put what I have in my head into real life is just an amazing thing.

I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life." Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.

The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.