Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Of course, such a moment isn't easy to analyze because every social encounter is laden with the unsaid and the unseen.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into something of a comic character, but… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“All I can say is that every time I'm with him, she's there. She walks through every game I play with him.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The rhythm that allows no change, no difference, is one that seeks to stop time, and stopping time means death. The teacher… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren’t there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to… — 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
“But the worst was that as time wore on, I became more and more afraid of myself, or perhaps more conscious of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I had never seen anything like New York, and its newness held the promise of my future: dense with the experience I… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves? — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have… — 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
Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten emotions return to… — 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
I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“My senses remained on high alert, and even thinking back on that time makes me feel giddy. I could never have a… — 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
