Sunday, February 22, 2009

[Susan Sontag, 1957]


“I hate to be so self-conscious…

I have diarrhoea of the mouth and constipation of the typewriter…

…I don’t care if it is lousy. The only way to learn how to write is to write. The excuse that what one is contemplating isn’t good enough - …”

[From Susan Sontag: Reborn. Early Diaries 1947 – 1964]

2 comments:

Thomas Ball said...

I like this image Uwe...is that Denis?

rupert beagle said...

no, it is not Denis :-) I ventured back into my old habitat of the Kiev underpasses last Sunday...