Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“If a man had a nasty side to his character, she wanted to get to it immediately and confront it. She didn’t want it… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back -… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“At the time, he had got rid of her so efficiently and so suavely that she had felt almost reassured even as she was… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“From the distance of England the Italian cuisine seems to be all things to all people. It does not expect you to bend to… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
