The Write Advice 105: SUSAN SONTAG

Obviously, I think of the writer of novels and stories and plays as a moral agent… This doesn’t entail moralizing in any direct or crude sense.  Serious fiction writers think about moral problems practically.  They tell stories.  They narrate. They evoke our common humanity in narratives with which we can identify, even though the lives may be remote from our own.  They stimulate our imagination.  The stories they tell enlarge and complicate — and, therefore, improve — our sympathies.  They educate our capacity for moral judgment.

At The Same Time: The Novelist and Moral Reasoning (2004)


 

Use the link below to read about the life and work of North American novelist, philosopher and filmmaker SUSAN SONTAG:

 

http://www.susansontag.com/SusanSontag/

 

 

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