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Siri Hustvedt

I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

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Siri Hustvedt

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

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Siri Hustvedt

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.

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Siri Hustvedt

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.

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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.’

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Siri Hustvedt

I published my first poem in ‘The Paris Review’ in 1980.

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Siri Hustvedt

If I have open time, and I’m in Manhattan, I’ll just walk to wherever I’m going, even if I could get there faster on the subway. I just love walking the streets of New York.

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Siri Hustvedt

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.

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Siri Hustvedt

Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon.

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Siri Hustvedt

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

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Siri Hustvedt

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

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