I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them. — Rachel Cusk Believe Copy Share Image
What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer? — Rachel Cusk Jobs Copy Share Image
“while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while… — Rachel Cusk Heart Copy Share Image
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back. — Rachel Cusk Back Copy Share Image
Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything. — Rachel Cusk Encouragement Copy Share Image
Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime. — Rachel Cusk Alone Copy Share Image
“She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.” — Rachel Cusk Books Copy Share Image
“you had said those things to him, you understand, you would have heard some truths in return. If you had been frank… — Rachel Cusk Frankness Copy Share Image
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with… — Rachel Cusk Any 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… — Rachel Cusk Heart Copy Share Image
“The polarisation of man and woman was a structure, a form: she had only felt it once it was gone, and it… — Rachel Cusk Heart Copy Share Image
To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which… — Rachel Cusk Born Copy Share Image
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist… — Rachel Cusk Different Copy Share Image
“The sad fact...is that in this era of science and unbelief we have lost the sense of our own significance. We have… — Rachel Cusk Philosophy 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… — Rachel Cusk Confront Copy Share Image
Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship… — Rachel Cusk Be prepared Copy Share Image
The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well, she's… — Rachel Cusk Asking Copy Share Image
“he has too much fear, so much that he is driven to enact the thing of which he is afraid, lest it… — Rachel Cusk Afraid Copy Share Image
I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It… — Rachel Cusk Behaviour 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 Being Copy Share Image
There is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly… — Rachel Cusk Art Copy Share Image
I think men and women are the same. Even as parents, I think we're the same. We're just conditioned to think that… — Rachel Cusk Area Copy Share Image
“The Cunning Little Vixen, in which a fox is caught by a hunter and kept in a farmyard with the other animals.… — Rachel Cusk Freedom Copy Share Image
“replied that I wasn’t sure it was possible, in marriage, to know what you actually were, or indeed to separate what you… — Rachel Cusk Identity 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… — Rachel Cusk Around the world Copy Share Image
“What she couldn’t stand, she said, was pretence of any kind, especially the pretence of desire, wherein someone feigned the need to… — Rachel Cusk Desire Copy Share Image
“the way I used to turn the pages of a book to find out what happens in the final chapter” — Rachel Cusk Book Copy Share Image
Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others. — Rachel Cusk Ability Copy Share Image
My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves. — Rachel Cusk Children Copy Share Image
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with… — Rachel Cusk Art Copy Share Image
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying. — Rachel Cusk Annoying Copy Share Image
I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in… — Rachel Cusk Art Copy Share Image
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude. — Rachel Cusk Dangerous Copy Share Image
“mutual frankness that she could work out who she herself was and what she actually wanted.” — Rachel Cusk Frankness Copy Share Image
“This feeling, of being negated at the same time as I was exposed, had had a particularly powerful effect on me, I… — Rachel Cusk Time Copy Share Image
What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more. — Rachel Cusk Babies Copy Share Image
“And saying you love him is the same as saying you don’t want to know what he really thinks of you. If… — Rachel Cusk Love Copy Share Image
