Siri Hustvedt Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Siri Hustvedt quotes and sayings page 3 (novelist). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 99 we have.
“I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.”
“I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.”
“I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.”
“In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.”
“It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!”
“My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.”
“My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an intellectual. I wanted his approval.”
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