“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
“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.” — 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… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“We project our feelings onto other people, but there is always a dynamic that creates those inventions. The fantasies are made between… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves in the imaginary gowns… — 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
