With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.
From Siri Hustvedt
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.
Being a mother is complicated because it's not just a paternal culture making demands on you; it's those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.
I have a longstanding fascination with visual art. I do, in fact, draw as well, as I did in 'The Summer without Men.' I also write essays about visual art.
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.
We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.
Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?
If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.
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