You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Yes, I need the money. I mean no, I don’t. It can’t be reduced to money. I can’t explain why I do… — 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
