Quotes by : Siri Hustvedt

The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only....

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

I said very little. I knew that for the time being I was the open air, the place to put the words, not....

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside,....

Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are....

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

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

We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was....

In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I....

Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.