Quote by Rachel Kushner Download Open image ““...his ridiculousness was a form of vitality.”” — Rachel Kushner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Many things receded into the distance behind him, seemed ridiculous or fantastical, or both. Were, at their core, unimportant.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“He was a true voluptuary, in his own modest way, with a voluptuary’s genius for softening the world around him.” — Suzanne Berne Copy Share Image
“He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
“There was some simple, radical difference about him. He hoped it was genius, feared it was madness, devoted himself to amiability and inconspicuousness.” — John Barth Copy Share Image
“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.” — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“somehow made him feel pure, whole, and righteous. He was filled with a feeling of euphoria, breathing rapidly, his heart racing,” — Rayven T. Hill Copy Share Image
“If anything, the spirit that drove him now was fiercer, but there was no denying the diminishing powers of his body. He” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
“His stride was long, tall, and proud. He wore a mask of proprietary disinterest, as though everything before his eyes belonged to him and… — S.G. Night Copy Share Image
“And I like his conceit. He's so conceited he's actually humble, the crazy bastard.” — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share
“Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in… — Rachel Kushner 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 of respect.… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs! — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“We were in separate realities, fast and slow. There is no fixed reality, only objects in contrast.” — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
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… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
“But I had seen, the night I met her, that her beauty was going to leave her like it does all women. For the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the marketplace, brutality, race - I'm not sure I have enough of a sense in aggregate of what the dominant novelists are doing to comment on why less do, or if less do. Maybe that's partly because… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share
