All Siri Hustvedt Quotes
- There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. Culture
- I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety… Convenient
- Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking… Another Form
- Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic… Associative
- The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy.… All
- Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61] Easier
- Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. Brings
- Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under… Certain
- We chart delusions through collective agreement. Agreement
- The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. Begins
- The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even… Absolutely
- Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'. Cause
- Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember. Always Two
- Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened. Fiction
- Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer... Dream
- In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our… Artist
- under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves… Bed
- That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we… Been
- I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the… Always Cracks
- I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by… Careful