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
There was lots of pleasure in writing The Flamethrowers. Then again, what is pleasure? Some pleasure is easy and other kinds are… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. — 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 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
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
I'm happy to be a woman but much of it was learned over the course of life. Really thudded into me. You… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the… — 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 Image
“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 Image
Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs! — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.” — 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 book. In… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people. — 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 so much… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
