Rachel Cusk

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

— Rachel Cusk

Modern morality is all about perception.

— Rachel Cusk

“Lo inesperado a veces parece una invitación del destino.”

— Rachel Cusk

“They walked in straight lines that the dogs scribbled all over.”

— Rachel Cusk

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

— Rachel Cusk

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

— Rachel Cusk

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

— Rachel Cusk

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

— Rachel Cusk

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch…

— Rachel Cusk

“ellipsis, he’d been told, could literally be translated as ‘to hide behind silence’. It’s fascinating stuff, he said.”

— Rachel Cusk

Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the…

— Rachel Cusk

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

— Rachel Cusk

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

— Rachel Cusk

The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is…

— Rachel Cusk

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

— Rachel Cusk

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form…

— Rachel Cusk

I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't…

— Rachel Cusk

Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between…

— Rachel Cusk

I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where…

— Rachel Cusk

Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what…

— Rachel Cusk

Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who…

— Rachel Cusk

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they…

— Rachel Cusk

In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't…

— Rachel Cusk

“The polarisation of man and woman was a structure, a form: she had only felt it once it was gone, and it…

— Rachel Cusk

“I have this theory that most artists never leave childhood, that you're endlessly trying to work out what happened. And leaving university…

— Rachel Cusk

“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is…

— Rachel Cusk

“It was just a question of not looking too closely at things. Close-up, the mad weave was bizarre and imageless, but from…

— Rachel Cusk

“We have possessed virtually nothing in our life in Italy. In England, I became increasingly sure that to possess something was to…

— Rachel Cusk

“It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiastically they…

— Rachel Cusk

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely…

— Rachel Cusk

I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at…

— Rachel Cusk

The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched…

— Rachel Cusk

“But his own mother had once said to him, in the period after his first marriage had ended when he was deeply…

— Rachel Cusk

“I remembered the way, when each of my sons was a baby, they would deliberately drop things from their high chair in…

— Rachel Cusk

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

— Rachel Cusk

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

— Rachel Cusk

“My neighbour from the plane was a good foot shorter than me”

— Rachel Cusk

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

— Rachel Cusk

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

— Rachel Cusk

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

— Rachel Cusk