When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control:… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of… — 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
