There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
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 Image
