Best Rachel Kushner Quotes
- Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives… Cuban
- Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a… Cities
- I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown… Adult
- I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and… Creative
- I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or… Behaving
- I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer,… Applying
- It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain… All
- L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the… All
- One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take… First Person
- When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does… Appropriate
- Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical… Arduous
- People who want their love easy don't really want love. Easy
- I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like. Crashed