To the Indomitable Spirit of Susan Sontag

(I found this passage at the end of her collection of essays titled Against Interpretation, which includes her groundbreaking Notes On Camp.)

"I had come to New York at the start of the 1960's, eager to put to work the writer I had, since adolescence, pledged myself to become. My idea of a writer: someone interested in "everything." I'd always had interests of many kinds, so it was natural for me to conceive of the vocation of a writer in this way. And reasonable to suppose that such fervency would find more scope in a great metropolis than in any variant of provincial life, including the excellent universities I had attended. The only surprise was that there weren't more people like me." (Italics mine)