“Lots of women read fiction. Most men don't. Women read fiction written by women and by men. Most men don't. If a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent… — 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
“I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to… — 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
