Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
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Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
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They seemed to regard fiction not as something decorative but as a vital moral-ethical tool. They changed you when you read them, made the world seem to be telling a different, more interesting story, a story in which you might play a meaningful part, and in which you had responsibilities.
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.
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