Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

- Siri Hustvedt

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

- Siri Hustvedt

I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always crac…

- Siri Hustvedt

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't not…

- Siri Hustvedt

We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.

- Siri Hustvedt

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

- Siri Hustvedt

Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So what we have here i…

- Siri Hustvedt

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

- Siri Hustvedt

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

- Siri Hustvedt