Siri Hustvedt Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Real, Rip, Reading

• Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Writing, Fiction, Remember

  Siri Hustvedt (2007). “A Plea for Eros: Essays”, p.41, Macmillan

• 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

  Dream, Writing, Sadness

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

  Siri Hustvedt

  Writing, Assumption

  "Siri Hustvedt: my life and other fiction" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2011.

• Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Book, Writing, Men

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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