Puritanical Quotes by Rachel Kushner

Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.

— Rachel Kushner

Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.

— Rachel Kushner

“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

“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

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

— Rachel Kushner

“We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.”

— 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 book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.

— Rachel Kushner

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

“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

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

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

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

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

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

— Rachel Kushner