Quotes About Siri Hustvedt

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.

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction.

The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.

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

In his response, James argued: "... all direct 'encouragement' - the thing you enjoin me on - encouragement of the short cut and say 'artless' order, is really more likely than not to be shallow and misleading...

Neither of these staring experiences was erotic for me, but they may have been for the two young men who did the staring. Who I was for either of them remains a mystery to me, a blank filled with my own dread.

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