"I knew I wanted to be a writer……" — Siri Hustvedt

"I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist."

— Siri Hustvedt

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92 Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of…
Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of…
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images…
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may…
Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to…
We chart delusions through collective agreement.
The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it…
The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat…
Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

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More Artist Quotes

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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