Siri Hustvedt Quotes

I cannot go to sleep without reading.

I can never get to sleep without a book.

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

Honestly, I don't remember the last time I had a dream. I don't really sleep often enough to be able to have any dreams.

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

Depending upon my activities, I sleep between five and ten hours every night. I sleep in an extra-wide single bed, and I use only one heavy down comforter over me, summer or winter. I have never been able to wear pajamas or creepy nightgowns; they disturb my sleep.

Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'

I don't have a night stand. If I read at night in bed or too close to sleep-time, I lie awake thinking in the dark for hours.

Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.

I try not to think before sleep otherwise it keeps me awake - I usually stick on an episode of The Golden Girls which makes me laugh and have nicer dreams - I highly recommend it!

Whatever you need to increase the quality of your sleep is really, really important.

I love a sleep mask, havin' total darkness is essential for good sleep, you know, cuttin' that light out of your eyes.

I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.

A wide array of factors can determine just how quickly you'll be able to drift off to sleep when you choose to do so.

I sleep well at night.

I don't really sleep until gone midnight anyway. It takes me a while to calm down before my mind allows me to switch off.

You should not actually stay in bed for very long awake, because your brain is this remarkably associative device, and it quickly learns that the bed is about being awake. So you should go to another room - a room that's dim. Just read a book - no screens, no phones - and, only when you're sleepy, return to the bed.

Parents go to sleep early. This is universal.

Sleep is a outmoded concept. It's best not to think about sleep.

There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.

Unfortunately, I have a child who doesn't sleep.

I sleep when the sleep comes down on me.

Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.

I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.

I feel no shame getting in bed at nine.