“This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations… — 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
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 had no friends. Was I happy? I was wildly happy. Sitting on my bed, which took up most of the space… — 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
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
