Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious. — 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
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
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
Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the… — 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
