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
We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Writing isn't a job so much as a compulsion. I've been writing since I was very young because for some strange reason,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world. — 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
