“But I had seen, the night I met her, that her beauty was going to leave her like it does all women.… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“[T]ime is more purely hers if she squanders it and keeps it empty, holds it, feels it pass by, and resists filling… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Ski racing was drawing in time, I said to Sandro. I finally had someone listening who wanted to understand: the two things… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“The woman in the film drinks in a bar. She's in hair curlers, a chiffon headscarf tied over them like a tarp… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“All you can do is involve yourself totally in your own life, your own moment, Lonzi said. And when we feel pessimism… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Documenting life as it happened seemed like a way of not experiencing it. As if posing for photographs, or focusing on what… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival.… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I… — 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
