“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“First loves are often terrible, probably because they are first and there is no conscious history into which they may be absorbed.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Love affairs and marriages stand or fall on this secret. Familiarity and the pedestrian realities of everyday life are the enemies of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“Sexual feeling is distinct from affection, even though they often conspire, but this fact runs against the grain of classic feminist arguments.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I was at a dinner party in New York during which the host loudly declared his undying love for his wife. Two… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“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
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“I have always felt that there is a triangular quality to every love affair. There are two lovers and a third element… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The ache of love feels remarkably like the ache of grief or guilt. Emotional pain isn't distinguishable by feeling, only by language.… — 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… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“How she loved you, her bubeleh, her boychik, her darling, but there was something cloying in that love, something theatrical and selfish,… — 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
