Rachel Kushner

Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.

— Rachel Kushner

Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.

— Rachel Kushner

“Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious…

— Rachel Kushner

“Because I didn't move here to fall in love. The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy…

— Rachel Kushner

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

— Rachel Kushner

“We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.”

— Rachel Kushner

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the…

— Rachel Kushner

People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.

— Rachel Kushner

I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is…

— Rachel Kushner

“But I had seen, the night I met her, that her beauty was going to leave her like it does all women.…

— Rachel Kushner

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe…

— Rachel Kushner

While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life -…

— Rachel Kushner

And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is…

— Rachel Kushner

I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun…

— Rachel Kushner

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

— Rachel Kushner

I don't really see art as structured by logic.

— Rachel Kushner

There was lots of pleasure in writing The Flamethrowers. Then again, what is pleasure? Some pleasure is easy and other kinds are…

— Rachel Kushner

It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most…

— Rachel Kushner

“[T]ime is more purely hers if she squanders it and keeps it empty, holds it, feels it pass by, and resists filling…

— Rachel Kushner

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by…

— Rachel Kushner

People who want their love easy don't really want love.

— Rachel Kushner

“Reality, in a sense, was not an objective place where you were thrust. You had to maintain your hold on it by…

— Rachel Kushner

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.

— Rachel Kushner

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes…

— Rachel Kushner

You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing…

— Rachel Kushner