“It is true that I suffered in a difficult and stupid love affair and that I worked at one bad job after… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I told myself to remember the snow and to remember my pure, strong happiness at simply being alive to see it. That… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The man was heavy with life. So often it’s lightness that we admire. Those people who appear weightless and unburdened, who hover… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from,… — 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
“Walking across campus made me feel sad, and I thought to myself, I wasn't happy there. Then, after reading, we walked past… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our… — 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