Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people. — Rachel Cusk Explained Copy Share Image
“They walked in straight lines that the dogs scribbled all over.” — Rachel Cusk Animal Copy Share Image
It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge. — Rachel Cusk Become Copy Share Image
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze. — Rachel Cusk Always Copy Share Image
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life. — Rachel Cusk Book Copy Share Image
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk Attention Copy Share Image
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 Always Copy Share Image
“ellipsis, he’d been told, could literally be translated as ‘to hide behind silence’. It’s fascinating stuff, he said.” — Rachel Cusk Silence Copy Share Image
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch… — Rachel Cusk Birth Copy Share Image
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is… — Rachel Cusk Contemporary 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 Belongs Copy Share Image
For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form… — Rachel Cusk Always Copy Share Image
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose. — Rachel Cusk Feminism Copy Share Image
Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between… — Rachel Cusk Civilisation 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 Actor Copy Share Image
Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who… — Rachel Cusk Case Copy Share Image
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what… — Rachel Cusk Black Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where… — Rachel Cusk Angry 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 Alienate 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… — Rachel Cusk Ability Copy Share Image
Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I… — Rachel Cusk Able Copy Share Image
“It was just a question of not looking too closely at things. Close-up, the mad weave was bizarre and imageless, but from… — Rachel Cusk Weave Copy Share Image
“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is… — Rachel Cusk Art Copy Share Image
“I have this theory that most artists never leave childhood, that you're endlessly trying to work out what happened. And leaving university… — Rachel Cusk Adult life Copy Share Image
“It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiastically they… — Rachel Cusk Advice Copy Share Image
“We have possessed virtually nothing in our life in Italy. In England, I became increasingly sure that to possess something was to… — Rachel Cusk Human mind 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… — Rachel Cusk Animal Copy Share Image
The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched… — Rachel Cusk Aftermath 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… — Rachel Cusk Believe Copy Share Image
“But his own mother had once said to him, in the period after his first marriage had ended when he was deeply… — Rachel Cusk Children Copy Share Image
“I remembered the way, when each of my sons was a baby, they would deliberately drop things from their high chair in… — Rachel Cusk First time Copy Share Image
Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative. — Rachel Cusk Eternal Copy Share Image
“My neighbour from the plane was a good foot shorter than me” — Rachel Cusk Neighbour Copy Share Image
That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up. — Rachel Cusk Passion Copy Share Image
People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them. — Rachel Cusk Aware Copy Share Image
If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse. — Rachel Cusk Hate Copy Share Image
