Best Siri Hustvedt Quotations
- I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my sparklers… Aching
- I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a… Attended
- I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband… Addiction
- I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist. Artist
- Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do… Better
- Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts. Far
- Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life. Bits
- Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid. Morbid
- There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged… Aged
- There are no rules in art. Art
- I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is… American
- My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted… Approval
- The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in… Creatures
- The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment. Brain
- The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated… Course
- The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified… Everyone
- Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century… Ago