Quotes by : Siri Hustvedt

No one rejoices more in revenge than women, wrote Juvenal. Women do most delight in revenge, wrote Sir....

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....

In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later.

Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed....

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of....

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty....

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

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my....

The tangible and intangible collide to cast a spell. But can a person or thing ever be stripped naked?....

We chart delusions through collective agreement.