Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. Siri Hustvedt More Quotes by Siri Hustvedt More Quotes From Siri Hustvedt I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor. Siri Hustvedt stars sea rose Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. Siri Hustvedt vantage-point stories Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done. Siri Hustvedt done thinking We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind. Siri Hustvedt eye mind brain Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated. Siri Hustvedt self expectations mother The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146] Siri Hustvedt reading doors book The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die. Siri Hustvedt men memories order Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia. Siri Hustvedt amnesia slips past Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart. Siri Hustvedt life-changing heart book In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting. Siri Hustvedt artist character memories Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened. Siri Hustvedt writing remember fiction Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'. Siri Hustvedt correlation causes chance Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating. Siri Hustvedt speech journey interesting The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. Siri Hustvedt territory boundaries littles Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. Siri Hustvedt library factories dream We chart delusions through collective agreement. Siri Hustvedt collectives delusion agreement Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61] Siri Hustvedt widows harder easier There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. Siri Hustvedt assumption writing I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. Siri Hustvedt imagine terrible fiction Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand. Siri Hustvedt lines crazy hands
