Susan Sontag Quotes

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

I resolved to start journaling every day, and so far I've been journaling every day, and it's been great.

Questions don't easily die within me until they're answered, and so being able to write a song and put words to complex feelings is part of my process of understanding and letting go of things.

I took a few months off after my senior year was over, and I prayed and tried to figure out what was my plan and my purpose. That's how I started writing songs and playing guitar just to get my feelings out.

I evaluate myself at the end of every year.

I write a diary every day.

I love the privilege of looking back on my life every three years, turning it into a comedy show, and sharing it with an audience. It's incredibly cathartic.

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.