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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1955

Topics

Family Day Night Summer Never First

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

Behavior You Reward Want Kind Must

We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.

Values Born Moral Empty Moral Values

My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.

Parents Me Prince Remind Usual

Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician's aide engaged in heart surgery.

Good Heart People Physician Own

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

Technology Today Power Space Mind

My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It's something I hope that I've become a role model for my children.

Father Mother Hope Children Man

I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world.

World Want Way Bedroom Always See

I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.

Education Reality Living Never Had

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

Personality More Side Melancholy

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive.

Myself School You Know More Excited

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

Live Feedback Inspiration Audience

It's so important to that we go into the public schools and we feed all of the kids something that is really good for them.

Good Go Important Something Feed

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