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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.

Siri Hustvedt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family History Literature Emotions

In Brazil, you buy tickets to go to the stadium to watch the carnival, but in Trinidad, you buy a costume and take part. There are very few things that can rival that experience.

Jillionaire

Experience You Go Brazil Buy Watch

I grew up watching Keira Knightley films nonstop, and I always admired period dramas and just everything that goes into it.

Jodie Comer

Watching Always Everything Up Just

I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

Jesse Spencer

Good Back Go Want Over University

The comedy I like the best is comedy I can't do, stuff that doesn't touch my arena.

Jenny Eclair

Best Comedy Touch Like Stuff Arena

The most profound things are inexpressible.

Jenny Holzer

Profound Things Most Inexpressible

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify.

John Corey Whaley

Time Experience Struggle Stress Me

Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.

Suga

Life Work Brave Tough Go Out

I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.

Matt Besser

College DJ My Own Years Punk Own

My daughter is one of the associate producers on two shows for Disney. I am really proud of her.

Mary Ann Mobley

Daughter I Am Proud Two Her Disney

I was reading at a third-grade level until the age of 30 before I made the decision that I was going to learn how to read.

Diamond Dallas Page

Age Decision Reading Learn Going

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

Christine Baranski

Doing You Television Down Stepping

If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.

Bobby Clarke

Never Left Once Learned Lay While