I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method… — 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
“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
“She herself, she said, had visited the very depths of disillusionment in the male character by being honest in precisely this way:… — Rachel Cusk Love 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
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
“The polarisation of man and woman was a structure, a form: she had only felt it once it was gone, and it… — Rachel Cusk Man and woman Copy Share Image
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Being a mother 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
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
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
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
“But I do admit that it has brought nearly all of my relationships to an end, because it is inevitable that that… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“mutual frankness that she could work out who she herself was and what she actually wanted.” — Rachel Cusk 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
It's a taboo that comes back over and over, to suggest that women can feel divided - that you can love your… — Rachel Cusk Away Copy Share Image
People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them. — Rachel Cusk Demonstrating 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
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
If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse. — Rachel Cusk Hatred 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
The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice… — Rachel Cusk Alone 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
“You could spend your whole life’, she said, ‘trying to trace events back to your own mistakes.” — Rachel Cusk Life 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
