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

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

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  3. 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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  10. Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is? – Siri Hustvedt
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  21. 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
  22. No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself. – Siri Hustvedt
  23. Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit – unconscious and conscious. – Siri Hustvedt
  24. Memory changes as a person matures. – Siri Hustvedt
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  32. There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. – Siri Hustvedt
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