American - Novelist | February 19, 1955 -
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.
Siri Hustvedt
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We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.
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People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.
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Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?
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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'.
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It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
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The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.
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Scientists have a tendency to believe in absolutes, in studies and the repeating of them. Psychoanalysis is firmly based in subjective accounts. We need both.
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I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a very handy term: 'neurasthenic'. I think that's a very useful word. We all know what that means: it means extra-sensitive.
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I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a member of a discussion group devoted to a new field: neuropsychoanalysis.
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I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband has told me repeatedly. He has even suggested that my rapacious reading resembles an addiction.
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Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.
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