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

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

- Siri Hustvedt

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

- Siri Hustvedt

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

- 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

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

- Siri Hustvedt

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

- 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

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

- Siri Hustvedt