“Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, afte...” — Siri Hustvedt Quote

“Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?”

“I'd been writing poems for many years, but most of them I didn't like. Then, when I was 23, I wrote one I did like, sent it to 'The Paris Review' - the highest publication I could think of - and they accepted it. No other moment in my literary life has quite come close to that.”

“I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.”

“To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.”

“I'm very much the type of actor that once I embody the character, I could stay in it from the beginning to the end.”

“Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.”