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None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.
— Siri Hustvedt
The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.
— 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
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.
— Siri Hustvedt
You don't give up at the beginning just because you're afraid of what might happen at the end. If it's worth it, then it's worth it,
— Siri Mitchell
Being alive is inexplicable, I thought. Consciousness itself is inexplicable. There is nothing ordinary in the world.
— Siri Hustvedt
I'm beginning to view democracy as the Siri of political systems. So much better in theory.
— Rob Thomas
I liked the streets as much as museums, and I spent hours in the city wandering around, inhaling the garbage.
— Siri Hustvedt
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
— Siri Hustvedt
She meant that if your conscience holds you back, if it muddles the purity of your desire, if it gives you mixed feelings, don't do it.
— Siri Hustvedt
This I've learned in life: If you don't believe in Santa Claus, he can't bring you any presents.
— Siri Mitchell
I curtsied. 'Thank you, Mr. Stansbury. And I apologize for my lack of grace.'He bowed. 'Never apologize for being courageous, Miss Withersby. — Siri Mitchell
Was a way of life that seemed to produce nothing of worth and yet consume everything of value.
— Siri Mitchell
The problem wasn't drinking. The problem was people. And what they needed wasn't a new law; what they needed was a new heart.
— Siri Mitchell
Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past.
— 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 is Norwegian.
— Siri Hustvedt
I was afraid of it, because I liked it. It excited me.
— Siri Hustvedt
Memory changes as a person matures.
— Siri Hustvedt
Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
— Siri Hustvedt
My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry.
— Siri Hustvedt
Love is not some tool for manipulation. Love is a gift - love is from God. Love means everything.
— Siri Mitchell
Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.
— Siri Hustvedt
Siri let out a silent puff of air. If he'd had a wife like this he would certainly have shot her long ago.
— Colin Cotterill
The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.
— Siri Hustvedt
The distance needed for humor is always missing from dreams.
— Siri Hustvedt
When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.
— Siri Hustvedt
We cannot wish our worlds into being. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others.
— Siri Hustvedt
We had been pulled apart by absence, but that same absence had shackled us together for life.
— Siri Hustvedt
Love doesn't make you run away. Love makes you come back.
— Siri Mitchell
Later, when the battles are won and the world is theirs, I will tell them about her. I will sing to them of Siri.
— Dan Simmons
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
— Siri Hustvedt
My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.
— Siri Hustvedt
Mostly the same, but different in parts, mostly in those lower begetting and bearing parts? Or different in kind?
— Siri Hustvedt
Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.
— Siri Hustvedt
There are no rules in art.
— Siri Hustvedt
If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.
— Siri Hustvedt
His sense of duty, honor, rectitude. What made me want to scream one day could make me proud the next.
— Siri Hustvedt
I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
— Siri Hustvedt
The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there.
— Siri Hustvedt
Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.
— Siri Hustvedt
If she raised you, she's your mother," Siri said. "It doesn't matter who gave birth to you." He
— Brandon Sanderson
Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.
— Siri Hustvedt
It is not that there is no difference between men and women; it is how much difference that difference makes, and how we choose to frame it.
— Siri Hustvedt
Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
— Siri Hustvedt
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
— 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.
— Siri Hustvedt
The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.
— Siri Hustvedt
The page can resurrect what's lost and what's dead, what's not there anymore and what was never there.
— Siri Hustvedt
When I spoke to her, I had the feeling that her thoughts had been nourished in wide-open spaces where talk was sparse and silence ruled.
— Siri Hustvedt
...I often thought of our marriage as one long conversation.
— Siri Hustvedt
It's odd the way life works, the way it mutates and wanders, the way one thing becomes another.
— Siri Hustvedt
There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.
— Siri Hustvedt
We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.
— Siri Hustvedt
Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
— Siri Hustvedt
We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.
— Siri Hustvedt
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
— Siri Hustvedt
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.
— Siri Hustvedt
I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.
— Siri Hustvedt
Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
— Siri Hustvedt
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
— Siri Hustvedt
But what they had achieved apart on the dance floors of the world was nothing compared to what they achieved together.
— Siri Mitchell
People can't help what they feel. It's what they do that counts
— Siri Hustvedt
Chance had given me this small adventure and I was pleased.
— Siri Hustvedt
I suppose Stanley fell in love with me during those talks about life and books, but he probably loved someone else, a person who wasn't me.
— Siri Hustvedt
I'm telling you there are many ways to live and many ways to love. I guess my way is more roundabout than most.
— Siri Hustvedt
Fiction is not an escape from the world either. Imaginary experience is also experience. O
— Siri Hustvedt
We chart delusions through collective agreement.
— Siri Hustvedt
The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.
— Siri Hustvedt
It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
— Siri Hustvedt
Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'
— Siri Hustvedt
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
— Siri Hustvedt
Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?
— Siri Hustvedt
I had no destination, just the will to go, and I went fast.
— Siri Hustvedt
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
— Siri Hustvedt
But if it wasn't you, then who would I dream about?
— Siri Mitchell
People imagine that hope has degrees, but I think not. There is hope and there is no hope.
— Siri Hustvedt
Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.
— Siri Hustvedt
She sat in silence on a chair looking over him, content with the fullness of her own thoughts.
— Siri Hustvedt
The genius of women has always been easy to discount, suppress, or attribute to the nearest man. When
— Siri Hustvedt
But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars.
— Dan Simmons
It has taken me a very long time, a very long time to give myself permission to fly and breathe fire.
— Siri Hustvedt
I garden. It's very relaxing to me.
— Siri Hustvedt