Books Quotes by Rachel Kushner

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

I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is…

— Rachel Kushner

The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we…

— Rachel Kushner

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

— Rachel Kushner

In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have…

— Rachel Kushner

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who…

— Rachel Kushner

I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to…

— Rachel Kushner

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

Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while…

— Rachel Kushner

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

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

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

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

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

I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain…

— Rachel Kushner

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write…

— Rachel Kushner

Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not…

— Rachel Kushner

I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real…

— Rachel Kushner

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as…

— Rachel Kushner

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