Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
Siri HustvedtMemory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
Siri HustvedtAll human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
Siri HustvedtGood books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.
Siri Hustvedt