I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.'… — 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
