Quotes by Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays

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I was happy without having sought happiness. — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
I had no friends. Was I happy? I was wildly happy. Sitting on my bed, which took up most of the space in that narrow roo — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
It is true that I suffered in a difficult and stupid love affair and that I worked at one bad job after another to try t — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
Walking across campus made me feel sad, and I thought to myself, I wasn't happy there. Then, after reading, we walked pa — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book. — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is? — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning. — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading novels. Thi — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was dead, I wrote a d — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made fr — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
The tangible and intangible collide to cast a spell. But can a person or thing ever be stripped naked? Can we ever disco — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction. — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own metamorphosis thro — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
When a culture oppresses women, and all do to one degree or another, it isn't convenient to acknowledge that there are w — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of links, and I link — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live in the mind onc — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mis — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself. — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays
What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may — Siri Hustvedt, A Plea for Eros: Essays