3 Quotes & Sayings By Mette Hjort

Mette Hjort is a novelist, poet, and playwright. She's the author of the international bestseller "The Book of a Thousand Days" and has published more than twenty novels, including "The Painter from Paris" and "Beautiful Stories from the Norse". She has been awarded the Norwegian Academy of Literature's highest honour, The Prince Eugen Medal for Literary Merit, and has received several other honours and prizes for her work. Hjort lives with her family in Oslo.

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...human beings are able to attend to issues longer, to think harder about them, to receive deeper impressions that last longer, if information is presented in a context of emotion--a sort of hot dressing--than if it is presented wholly without affect. Mette Hjort
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...the rationale for the existence of literature lies precisely in its ability to work on issues that concern us deeply. And it does so in a way that keeps our motivation at its highest intensity. Literature is fuel for 'hot cognition.' One may presume that imaginative literature is a property that all human cultures possess and as such may provide humans with an evolutionary advantage. Mette Hjort