Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath,… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life -… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the… — 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
In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is… — 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
Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none… — 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
