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A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
– Siri Hustvedt

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  1. Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn’t there, and that creative invention becomes the book. – Siri Hustvedt
  2. You know, that’s what you’ve been doing in a way–coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell. – Jennifer Niven
  3. I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls. – Siri Hustvedt
  4. We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone’s eye, we look into a mind. – Siri Hustvedt
  5. Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
  6. No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author. – Neil Gaiman
  7. If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads. – Sherman Alexie
  8. No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. – Romain Rolland
  9. The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. – Siri Hustvedt
  10. Enlightenment is living in the light of cosmic collaboration. Collaboration gives us the freedom to come out of the boundaries of limited realities. – Amit Ray
  11. The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody. – Brian Joyce
  12. Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. – Siri Hustvedt
  13. Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie. – Siri Hustvedt
  14. Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. – Siri Hustvedt
  15. Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is? – Siri Hustvedt
  16. fiction is necessary to life – not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning. – Siri Hustvedt
  17. Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-”flesh and bone-”only to be spewed out again in our own works. – Siri Hustvedt
  18. The history of art is full of women lying around naked for ?????c consumption by men. – Siri Hustvedt
  19. Only the unprotected self can feel joy. – Siri Hustvedt
  20. The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction. – Siri Hustvedt
  21. My purely practical advice: Don’t get excited. Don’t raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry. – Siri Hustvedt
  22. Our memory fragments don’t have any coherence until they’re imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. – Siri Hustvedt
  23. Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it’s not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable. – Siri Hustvedt
  24. No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself. – Siri Hustvedt
  25. Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit – unconscious and conscious. – Siri Hustvedt
  26. Memory changes as a person matures. – Siri Hustvedt
  27. What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible. – Siri Hustvedt
  28. In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later. – Siri Hustvedt
  29. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand. – Siri Hustvedt
  30. Correlation is not cause, it is just a ‘music of chance’. – Siri Hustvedt
  31. Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past. – Siri Hustvedt
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. – Siri Hustvedt
  35. There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. – Siri Hustvedt
  36. Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others. – Siri Hustvedt
  37. The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there. – Siri Hustvedt
  38. The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy. – Siri Hustvedt
  39. The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself. – SA Tawks
  40. There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – GK Chesterton

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