5 Quotes by Siri Hustvedt about reading




  • Author Siri Hustvedt
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    I see what I did not see. I experience that which is outside my own experience. This is the magic of reading novels. This is the working out of the problem of illusion. I take a book off the shelf. I open it up and begin to read, and what I discover in its pages is real.

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  • Author Siri Hustvedt
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    Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

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