Correlation is not caused, it is just a 'music of chance'.

— Siri Hustvedt

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

— Siri Hustvedt

Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand.

— Siri Hustvedt

Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

— Siri Hustvedt

Do you know that I can't remember her face? Try as I may, it will not be conjured. I can tell you what she looked like; I can recite a description of her features, part by part, but I cannot evoke the whole face.'' Don't you have a photograph?'' Photographs!' He spat out the word. 'I'm talking about true recollection - seeing the face.

— Siri Hustvedt

Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.

— Siri Hustvedt

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

— Siri Hustvedt

Each person does see the world differently. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

— Siri Hustvedt

Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.

— Siri Hustvedt

Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

— Siri Hustvedt