The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I had been thinking about rubber all along. Like as the novel's element, or base material. A lot of artists in the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
“Because I didn't move here to fall in love. The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect.… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs! — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
“We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.” — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
“But I had seen, the night I met her, that her beauty was going to leave her like it does all women. For the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun for the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
