“The thing suppressed as an intrusion," Eric said, "is almost always worth looking at.” — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics. — Rachel Kushner Art Copy Share Image
“To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you,” — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need. — Rachel Kushner Amazing life Copy Share Image
I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics. — Rachel Kushner Art Copy Share Image
For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and… — Rachel Kushner Alone Copy Share Image
People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with. — Rachel Kushner Myth Copy Share Image
People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them.… — Rachel Kushner Challenges Copy Share Image
The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write… — Rachel Kushner Books Copy Share Image
Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I… — Rachel Kushner Destiny Copy Share Image
“I remember a rainbow spectrum of men’s wing tips parked in rows, triple-A narrow, the leather dyed snake green, lemon yellow, and… — Rachel Kushner Fashion Copy Share Image
Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not… — Rachel Kushner Art Copy Share Image
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by… — Rachel Kushner Character Copy Share Image
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 Art Copy Share Image
“Isn’t that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could… — Rachel Kushner Intimacy Copy Share Image
Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic… — Rachel Kushner Cuban Copy Share Image
“But at the same time, Sandro understood that people only tended to allow their own contradictions, and not those of others. It… — Rachel Kushner Contradictions Copy Share Image
There is no single formula for good sentence. An invisible integument that gives the sentence wholeness and musicality, sometimes. But other times,… — Rachel Kushner Giving Copy Share Image
I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to… — Rachel Kushner Books Copy Share Image
“Sometimes they just sit. Sometimes one turns on a radio and they listen to music, or to the news, but they don’t… — Rachel Kushner Life Copy Share Image
I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think… — Rachel Kushner Absurd Copy Share Image
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 Fun Copy Share Image
“If your parents died suddenly, Sandro understood, your home was wherever you were, and now you were from nowhere. Your parents were… — Rachel Kushner Family Copy Share Image
A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political. — Rachel Kushner Art Copy Share Image
“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 Desire Copy Share Image
Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For… — Rachel Kushner Art Copy Share Image
“Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious… — Rachel Kushner Art Copy Share Image
I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground. — Rachel Kushner Authentic Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are… — Rachel Kushner Books Copy Share Image
I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in… — Rachel Kushner Creative Copy Share Image
I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all… — Rachel Kushner Comic Copy Share Image
“A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with… — Rachel Kushner Computers Copy Share Image
“La Mazière had met with El Extraño at a chicken-dinner-and-cockfight joint near the Havana airport, a place that proved even more vulgar… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
