I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in… — 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… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not,… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, 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
