Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers

1) Write. There is no substitute. Write what you most passionately want to write, not blogs, posts, tweets or all the disposable bubblewrap in which modern life is cushioned. But start small: write a good sentence, then a good paragraph, and don’t be dreaming about writing the great American novel or what you’ll wear at the awards ceremony becaus

A writer could blast out her opinions, but writers are at their best not when they tell people what to think but when they provide a context within which others can think.