Siri Hustvedt Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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

  Book, Together, Collaboration

  Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men”, p.72, Hachette UK

• Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does. Would you sign the book to her?" What are those men doing there? And where are their wives?

  Siri Hustvedt

  Book, Men, Wife

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

• Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Life Changing, Book, Heart

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.63, Macmillan

• 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

• The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]

  Siri Hustvedt

  Book, Reading, Doors

  Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men”, p.71, Hachette UK

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