Quotes by : Siri Hustvedt

Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear.....

The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own....

Within weeks of my arrival in New York, I was someone else, not because there had been a revolution in....

Because I knew so much about him, because I had been close to him, I couldn't bring the various fragments....

I had no friends. Was I happy? I was wildly happy. Sitting on my bed, which took up most of the space....

I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it....

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

Old places fire the internal weather of our pasts. The mild winds, aching calms, and hard storms of forgotten....

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

We must all allow ourselves the fantasy of projection from time to time, a chance to clothe ourselves....