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Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition."

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.




Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "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 don't notice the threshold has been crossed."

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 don't notice the threshold has been crossed.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie."

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.




Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense."

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 Quotes: "Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting."

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor."

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.




Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it."

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 Quotes: "Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded."

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors."

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]"

Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]




Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'."

Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help."

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world."

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind."

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated."

Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer."

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done."

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition."

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want."

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind."

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself."

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in."

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "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 through of the day, nevertheless."

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 through of the day, nevertheless.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand."

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "We chart delusions through collective agreement."

We chart delusions through collective agreement.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious."

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "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 circumstances is fascinating."

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 circumstances is fascinating.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends."

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 Quotes: "All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static."

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart."

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened."

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art."

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking."

Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Men generally do not see women as competition."

Men generally do not see women as competition.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned."

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men."

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true."

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences."

Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile."

After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on."

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them."

I myself have perceived women's actions as more aggressive than I would have in men because I too am walking around with my own biases. The way to fight them is to become conscious of them.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling."

Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression."

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "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 of convenient fictions."

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 of convenient fictions.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women."

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through books, fictions that are no less part of me than much of my own history."

The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis through books, fictions that are no less part of me than much of my own history.



Siri Hustvedt Quotes: "True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded."

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.