“The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The tangible and intangible collide to cast a spell. But can a person or thing ever be stripped naked? Can we ever… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“A powerfully imagined event can evoke the same emotions as a real event. Few artists would contradict this, and yet there no… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
“The outside also becomes us. A human being is born an unfinished organism and as the person develops experience with others becomes a physical… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share
