When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I have not been diagnosed with epilepsy. I did have an MRI of the brain, and they found no abnormalities in my… — 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
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
