Desire Quote by Rachel Cusk

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in…

— Rachel Cusk

“If a man had a nasty side to his character, she wanted to get to it immediately and confront it. She didn’t want it…

— Rachel Cusk

If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the…

— Rachel Cusk

I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as…

— Rachel Cusk

The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back -…

— Rachel Cusk

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

— Rachel Cusk

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

— Rachel Cusk

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

— Rachel Cusk

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

— Rachel Cusk

“At the time, he had got rid of her so efficiently and so suavely that she had felt almost reassured even as she was…

— Rachel Cusk

“From the distance of England the Italian cuisine seems to be all things to all people. It does not expect you to bend to…

— Rachel Cusk

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find…

— Rachel Cusk