There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Everyone has an inner life that is as large and complex and rich as my own.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“...a sense that even if every scrap of a life were saved, thrown into a giant mound and then carefully sifted to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life… — 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
“Desire is the engine of life, the yearning that goads us forward with stops along the way, but it has no destination,… — 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
“I had left small-town, rural life for good, and I had no intention of ever returning, not because I didn't like my… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I loved it so much I was sorry to finish it. I closed the book and shocked myself by thinking, This is… — 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
Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“A young person always extrapolates human reality from her own life.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“James believed in the power of art, not because he thought it would change the world or because he imagined it could… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“And later in the letter, he elaborated further, "It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“the idea of "extension" makes sense to me because art and the world can't be as easily divided as we sometimes imagine.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one… — 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
