“Very simply, for the mind, absence can be a catalyst for presence.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Aggressive questions are usually pedagogic - that is, the answer has already been written in the mind of the questioner, who then… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“James explores the psychological implications of belief - how a climate of ideas can invade, affect, mingle with, and be used, both… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“We need to think of the self as a continuum, a steady story over time. The mind is always searching for similarities,… — 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
“The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live… — 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
