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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Art Language Artist Without Up

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

Andre Leon Talley

Love Women Great Humble Dress Late

If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

Work Business Time Boss Face Data

When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.

Father Myself Money Me Proud Rules

I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and secrecy, and that's what I write about.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Adventure Me World Mystery Discovery

It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.

Challenge People Ideas Think You

I wish I were a character actor. Of course, if I played hockey without a mask, I could become one.

Character Hockey Mask Wish Become

There are plenty of secondary characters that I had always hoped to write, but I don't know if it will ever happen. The way contracts work, if you leave one publishing house for another, the characters tend to stay with the previous publishing house.

Work You House Know Will Way

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rain Process Rejection You Three

If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.

Opportunity People Priorities Back

I don't feel like I should pay somebody to do something that I can do.

Tyler James Williams

Feel I Can Pay Something Like

Norman Lear is my all-time, ultimate hero. He's an amazing man. That's one person I'm looking forward to meeting. What he did, with shows and sitcoms, he's my hero.

Hero Man Amazing Looking Forward He

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