Quotes by : Siri Hustvedt

There is no perception without memory. But good art surprise us. Good art reorients our expectations,....

The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live....

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing....

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

I've come to think of consciousness as a continuum of states, from fully awake cogitation to daydreaming....

It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The....

True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing....

We all start out the same in our mothers' wombs. We, all of us, when floating in the amniotic sea of....

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

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from....