Quotes About Hustvedt

Aggressive questions are usually pedagogic - that is, the answer has already been written in the mind of the questioner, who then waits with a reply. It's pretend listening.

I found that air of menace more inspiring than upsetting

and she, in turn, had cast a spell over the art world through the magic of controversy.

Awkward brilliance in a boy is more easily categorized, and it conveys no sexual threat.

My hope made me pathetic, but I comforted myself with the fact that I was my only witness.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!