An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first… — Rachel Cusk Being 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
“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
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
“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
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
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable. — Rachel Cusk Criticism Copy Share Image
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing'… — Rachel Cusk Because 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
It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y… — Rachel Cusk Destruction Copy Share Image
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesnt want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system… — Rachel Cusk Free 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
To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded. — Rachel Cusk About 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
Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative. — Rachel Cusk Eternal Copy Share Image
There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential… — Rachel Cusk Art Copy Share Image
“But what other people thought was no longer of any help to me. Those thoughts only existed within certain structures, and I… — Rachel Cusk Philosophy of Mind 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
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool.… — Rachel Cusk Bad mother Copy Share Image
What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more. — Rachel Cusk Babies Copy Share Image
Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like,… — Rachel Cusk Assertion Copy Share Image
There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries… — Rachel Cusk Art 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
