There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Being a mother is complicated because it’s not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it’s those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in ‘The Summer without Men.’ I also write essays about visual art. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves? Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
If something’s not working, it’s wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, ‘Actually, you’ve gone off the deep end here’. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
The English expression ‘to fall asleep’ is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do. Siri Hustvedt Read Quote
