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" 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
Without
Artist
Love
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" I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly. "
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Am
" I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian. "
Siri Hustvedt
Growing Up
Mother
Up
" While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first time - I looked out of the window and thought, 'If this is what books can do, this is what I want to do.' "
Siri Hustvedt
Thought
Night
Light
" There was a film class in my high school in Northfield, Minnesota, which was very unusual. I saw my first Buster Keaton film there, aged about 15. It made a gigantic impression on me. "
Siri Hustvedt
High School
Film
Class
" We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true. "
Siri Hustvedt
Brain
Culture
Live
" Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me. "
Siri Hustvedt
Painting
Never
Me
" Writers are in control of editing processes - making a sentence better, cutting out a paragraph. But the initial outpouring has very little to do with conscious control or manipulation. "
Siri Hustvedt
Better
Manipulation
Editing
" It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do. "
Siri Hustvedt
Know
Fall
Control
" Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully. "
Siri Hustvedt
Risk
Children
Safety
" I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location. "
Siri Hustvedt
Think
Place
Memory
" 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. "
Siri Hustvedt
Desire
Curiosity
Born
" There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help. "
Siri Hustvedt
Sleep
Help
Children
" Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life. "
Siri Hustvedt
Children
Life
Passionate
" I've come to understand that migraine is a part of the personality. I have migraine troughs. These often follow high productivity. I have a hypo-manic phase, then I'll crash. "
Siri Hustvedt
Follow
Personality
High
" I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist. "
Siri Hustvedt
Going
Artist
Before
" I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art. "
Siri Hustvedt
Men
Summer
Without
" If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there faster on the subway. I just love walking the streets of New York. "
Siri Hustvedt
Love
Walk
Time
" Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud's death instinct. "
Siri Hustvedt
Death
Embrace
Mind
" 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
Literature
Family
Emotions
" The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine. "
Siri Hustvedt
People
Real
Complicated
" I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster. "
Siri Hustvedt
Child
I Am
Learning
" I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books. "
Siri Hustvedt
Tendency
Fantasies
Face
" All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static. "
Siri Hustvedt
Brain
Fear
Happiness
" The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism: one driven by emotional forces, not only cognitive ones. "
Siri Hustvedt
Living
Only
Will
" Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective. "
Siri Hustvedt
Perspective
World
Truth
" In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world. "
Siri Hustvedt
World
Behind
Leave
" I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes. "
Siri Hustvedt
Seventies
Late
Time
" Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country as a tool for interpreting literary texts but has rarely, if ever, been discussed in science departments. "
Siri Hustvedt
Years
ID
Country
" I love the little garden in the back of my family's brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides. "
Siri Hustvedt
Joy
Black
Family
" I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980. "
Siri Hustvedt
Published
Paris
Poem