More Writing Advice: Susan Sontag

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Sontag’s Steam

“I write in spurts. I write when I have to because the pressure builds up and I feel enough confidence that something has matured in my head and I can write it down. But once something is really under way, I don’t want to do anything else. I don’t go out, much of the time I forget to eat, I sleep very little. It’s a very undisciplined way of working and makes me not very prolific. But I’m too interested in many other things.”

—Susan Sontag (1933-2004), writer, filmmaker, activist and “public intellectual,” interviewed in The Paris Review, 1995 

 

• Editorial Comment: A writer, Sontag said, is “someone who pays attention to the world.” Hear that, students?

• Yesterday’s WORD: Did you miss yesterday’s WORDs about writer Ray Bradbury’s writing habits, on writing Fahrenheit 451 on a rental typewriter, 10¢ and 30 minutes at a time? Click here.

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