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> [I garden. It's very relaxing to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/i-garden-it-s-very-relaxing-to-me/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/sigmund-freud-was-very-much-a-creature-of-his-time-he-did-not-invent/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/hysteria-is-something-that-i-ve-been-interested-for-a-very-long-time/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/i-am-married-to-a-writer-and-this-writing-is-an-odd-enterprise-it-s/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/it-s-hard-to-penetrate-characters-who-are-very-cut-off-and-lack/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/it-s-thought-that-about-96-of-us-have-visual-imagery-and-there-s-a/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/writers-are-in-control-of-editing-processes-making-a-sentence-better/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/only-time-will-tell-in-what-ways-freud-was-prescient-and-in-what-ways/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/there-was-a-film-class-in-my-high-school-in-northfield-minnesota/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/i-like-nerves-i-like-the-word-migraineur-i-like-the-word-madness/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/writing-isn-t-a-job-so-much-as-a-compulsion-i-ve-been-writing-since-i/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/with-almost-no-exceptions-art-by-men-is-much-more-expensive-than-art/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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> [My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/my-feeling-is-when-you-are-writing-an-essay-you-don-t-make-anything/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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## Other authors on Very

## More by Siri Hustvedt

> [I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/i-am-married-to-a-writer-and-this-writing-is-an-odd-enterprise-it-s/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/with-almost-no-exceptions-art-by-men-is-much-more-expensive-than-art/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/i-love-the-little-garden-in-the-back-of-my-family-s-brownstone-in/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/i-watched-holiday-in-college-and-that-was-when-i-had-my-first-fantasy/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [“the impersonal and the personal are always connected.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/the-impersonal-and-the-personal-are-always-connected/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/when-i-don-t-get-enough-sleep-i-am-cranky-vulnerable-to-headaches-and/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [“Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/transformation-of-the-self-are-related-to-where-you-are-and-identity/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/there-s-a-phenomenology-of-being-sick-one-that-depends-on-temperament/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/the-faculty-of-memory-cannot-be-separated-from-the-imagination-they/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [“Looking is part of love, but what you see when you look is anybody's guess.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/looking-is-part-of-love-but-what-you-see-when-you-look-is-anybody-s/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/every-sickness-has-an-alien-quality-a-feeling-of-invasion-and-loss-of/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/i-have-a-tendency-to-face-my-bad-fantasies-in-my-books/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [“The outside also becomes us. A human being is born an unfinished organism and as the person develops experience with others becomes a physical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/the-outside-also-becomes-us-a-human-being-is-born-an-unfinished/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/i-am-an-american-but-a-sense-of-otherness-was-part-of-my-growing-up-i/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

> [When I was an impoverished graduate student, I would sometimes spend $20 or $30 on a T-shirt or accessory I didn't need or even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/siri-hustvedt/when-i-was-an-impoverished-graduate-student-i-would-sometimes-spend/)

[Siri Hustvedt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/siri-hustvedt/)

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