I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English.… — 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
Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and… — 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
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state… — 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
