“What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Neurobiological research has shown that in people with chronic PTSD, both stress hormone secretion and areas of the brain connected to memory… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations, forces us to break the pattern,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“When dailiness enters memory, repetition fixes places in the mind, but it also burdens them with a wealth of experience that is… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It is true that I suffered in a difficult and stupid love affair and that I worked at one bad job after… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“My memory of the school building itself, its rooms and lockers, blackboards, and hallways, bring on a heavy, oppressive feeling. Whether I… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Memories that have never been told aren't yet solid stories; they are potential stories. It may be that the interlocutor is the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the… — 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
“It can only be that places left behind often become emotionally simplified - that they sound a single note of pain or… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I have begun to wonder what actually happens in our brains when we return to half-remembered places. What is memory's perspective? Does… — 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
