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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

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness. Siri Hustvedt

Happiness Family Nature Me Everyone Pleasure Never Had Idea Come Sport Occurred Where Might Skiing Fun

We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want. Siri Hustvedt

Sometimes Want Really Imagine

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose. Siri Hustvedt

Work Funny Fashion Crazy Experience Book Out Recommend Sexy Strongly Inventive Writer Pick Prose Know Readers Fallen His Up Often Famous Who Zealous Whose Henry Miller

Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner. Siri Hustvedt

I garden. It's very relaxing to me. Siri Hustvedt

Me Garden Relaxing Very

Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.' Siri Hustvedt

Parents Seems Insomnia Fair Call Bed Terrors Normal Common Middle Children Crawling Them Among Resistance Night Nightmares Sleep

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

Fall Control Think High Slumber Relinquish Tempting Insomnia Know Vulnerable Disease Form Which Inability Regions Agency Asleep Ignorant Consciousness

It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom are normal, some of whom have brain lesions, who cannot produce visual imagery. Siri Hustvedt

Thought Minority Visual Some About Brain Normal Very Tiny Cannot Produce Us Who Population Whom Imagery

As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young. Siri Hustvedt

Young Imagination Would Brother No Question Daughters Had Like Boy Been Question Up Child Wondering Grew Us Phantom Four Imaginary

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

Happiness Writing Fear Sadness Problems Organic Lust Our States Static Dreaming Doing Math Brain Brains Human Novels

Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed. Siri Hustvedt

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

Time Light Thought First Reading Books Out Window Insomnia David Had Looked Because First Time Middle Want While Night

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid. Siri Hustvedt

Sometimes Morbid Also Although Reduced Transcendent Cannot

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams. Siri Hustvedt

Dreams Giving Giving Up Drop Fall Sleeping State Apt Self-Consciousness Between Altered Another Because Up Waking Gradual Being Transition Asleep Full English Expression Consciousness

Every mental state is also physical. Siri Hustvedt

Every State Physical Mental Also

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

Culture World Psychic Organic Live About Something Physically Unrelated Wrong True Talking Because Brain Upbringing Than Person Disease Experiences Happier Former Much Illness Wholly Necessarily

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