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Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt
American Novelist
Born: Feb 19, 1955
Art First Me People Think Time
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
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
Truth World Perspective Single Our Way See Objective Objective Truth Limited Does Person Different Unifying Each Different Way
It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant. Siri Hustvedt
Character Sympathy Penetrate Characters Easy Empathy Make Off Very Lack Repugnant Cut Hard Who Damaged
Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future. Siri Hustvedt
Hope Future Creativity More Both Openness Always Depended Us Flexibility Let Us
In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself - only its aftermath. Siri Hustvedt
Car Mind Accident Speeding Van See Only Toward Although Still August Itself Survived Crash Aftermath Cannot Us Car Accident Bring
Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as 'chemical imbalances in the brain,' as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person's brain cause depression and anxiety. Siri Hustvedt
Depression Anxiety Events Cause Example Relation Both Neural Outside For Example Spontaneous Chemical Repeatedly Brain Person Anything Disorders Media
Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious. Siri Hustvedt
Time Invent Unconscious He Freud His Very Did Much Creature
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 Time Mind Will Example Few Ways Tell Embrace Only Only Time He Failed Instinct For Example Understand How Still Scientist Freud Very Functions
I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject. Siri Hustvedt
History Physician Categories Read Am Subject The History Of Interested Deeply
When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of classic bipolar disorder. I met other patients who had been diagnosed with myriad disorders. No doctor seemed to agree about what they actually suffered from. Siri Hustvedt
People Writing Doctor Met Bipolar Other Classes Classic About Seemed Myriad Had Highs Diagnosed Been Textbook Taught Psychiatric Patients Stories Manic Disorder Disorders Lows Who Agree Appeared Descriptions Whose Suffered Actually
None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world. Siri Hustvedt
World Live Immune None Social Us Beings Suggestion
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them. Siri Hustvedt
Work Art Me Words Build Pleasure Immense Visual About Rather Gives Write Part Make Make Up Verbally Always Continue Up Than Essays Them Create
There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood. Siri Hustvedt
You People Wear Costumes Between Name Real Blood Real People Difference Flesh Using
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. Siri Hustvedt
Life My Life Assumption About Write Simply True Much
I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books. Siri Hustvedt
Face Books Bad Tendency Fantasies
Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated. Siri Hustvedt
You Culture Women Complicated Mother Those Demands Because Making Expectations Paternal Just Being Internal
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'. Siri Hustvedt
You Trust Wonderful Gone Say Something Reader Off End Working Deep Deep End Actually Here
I found myself fascinated by neuroscience, attended a monthly lecture on brain science at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was invited to become a member of a discussion group devoted to a new field: neuropsychoanalysis. Siri Hustvedt
Myself Science Become Field Group Monthly Member Neuroscience Attended Invited New Institute Devoted Lecture Brain Discussion York New York Psychoanalytic Fascinated Found
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
Editing Better Control Out Paragraph Outpouring Writers Making Very Processes Little Manipulation Sentence Cutting Initial Conscious
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
Me Class School Made First Saw Gigantic High Minnesota High School About Unusual Impression Very Which Aged Keaton Buster Film
I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly. Siri Hustvedt
Writing Enterprise Married Strongly Something Both Writer Support Am Odd Very
Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business. Siri Hustvedt
Funny Business Honesty Think Telling Rigorous Lies Emotional Facts Feel Fiction Which Even Apply
There are no rules in art. Siri Hustvedt
Art Rules No Rules
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. Siri Hustvedt
Me Father Parents Impress Approval Hunger Gigantic Had Were His Intellectual Influences Wanted Who Deep Professor
The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment. Siri Hustvedt
Perspective Organ Changes Relation Only Environment First-Person Dynamic Plastic Lived
Our great cultural error is to assume that 'truth' arrives only through reductive theories. Siri Hustvedt
Truth Great Assume Our Only Through Cultural Error Theories
The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences. Siri Hustvedt
Future Made Unreal Remembered Course Repeated Expectations Experiences Place Which Create Imaginary
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