"Sanity is a cozy lie."
"I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive."
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Source: Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage
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