About Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

11 About quotes by Siri Hustvedt

When you want a brief encounter with Siri Hustvedt’s thoughts on 'About,' this eleven‑item list offers a clear, intellectual snapshot.

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I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without…

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There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton…

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The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on…

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I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing…

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I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to…

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Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could…

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There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

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When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be…

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It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom…

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I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting…

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We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests…

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I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

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With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee…

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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…

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I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the…

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“the impersonal and the personal are always connected.”

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When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

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“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.”

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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

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The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our…

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“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.”

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Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

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I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

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“The outside also becomes us. A human being is born an unfinished organism and as the person develops experience with others becomes a physical…

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I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother…

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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…

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