"I'm a school marm. That's all I am," Marnie says of her life in New York City. "People, they want success and they want material advantages ... And they don't, it's really, being a writer is just scutt work." The best thing Susan Sontag did was write an essay about horror films from the 1950s that she thought if you only stayed like that, you're kind of unpretentious with actual materials.

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