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Rachel Kushner quotes: Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it. Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Publishing is not my world. Publishing is not my world.
Rachel Kushner quotes: In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones. In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I don't really see art as structured by logic. I don't really see art as structured by logic.
Rachel Kushner quotes: For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it. For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.
Rachel Kushner quotes: A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment. A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.
Rachel Kushner quotes: She was drunk, as everyone was, most of the time. She was drunk, as everyone was, most of the time.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write. I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
Rachel Kushner quotes: A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made made curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them. A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made made curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Sandro never cared about reciprocity. Sex is not about exchange values, he said. It's a gift economy. Sandro never cared about reciprocity. Sex is not about exchange values, he said. It's a gift economy.
Rachel Kushner quotes: A novel is not a rant. A novel is not a rant.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A. I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Whatever she was or wasn't, she looked like a liar and he liked liars. Whatever she was or wasn't, she looked like a liar and he liked liars.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground. I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Yes, I need the money. I mean no, I don't. It can't be reduced to money. I can't explain why I do it. It's a kind of impulse. Yes, I need the money. I mean no, I don't. It can't be reduced to money. I can't explain why I do it. It's a kind of impulse.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it. Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding. I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.
Rachel Kushner quotes: She believed that people are born every minute of their lives, and what they are in each of those minutes is what they are completely. She believed that people are born every minute of their lives, and what they are in each of those minutes is what they are completely.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think. Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.' I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner quotes: The art world is filled with vibrancy. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it. Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.
Rachel Kushner quotes: She smiled at him like they were about to rob a bank together. She smiled at him like they were about to rob a bank together.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Prayer is so complicated. Prayer is so complicated.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York. I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.
Rachel Kushner quotes: ...his ridiculousness was a form of vitality. ...his ridiculousness was a form of vitality.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics. I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
Rachel Kushner quotes: What had actually been in Valera's haversack: not a woman's vulva but grenades, a gas mask, a gun that constantly jammed. What had actually been in Valera's haversack: not a woman's vulva but grenades, a gas mask, a gun that constantly jammed.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance. I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.
Rachel Kushner quotes: To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you, To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you,
Rachel Kushner quotes: I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me. I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often. I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
Rachel Kushner quotes: When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable. When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour. I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
Rachel Kushner quotes: From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized. From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs! Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!
Rachel Kushner quotes: Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones. Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature. I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others. I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like. I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me. I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side. Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
Rachel Kushner quotes: The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed. The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.
Rachel Kushner quotes: The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect. It's not admirable to want love, it just is. The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it's worthy of respect. It's not admirable to want love, it just is.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work. I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics. Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
Rachel Kushner quotes: My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself. My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images. I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
Rachel Kushner quotes: It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced. It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you. I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
Rachel Kushner quotes: They were accustomed to being interrupted. Whoever was hungriest to speak, spoke. I wasn't hungry in that same way. I was hungry to listen. They were accustomed to being interrupted. Whoever was hungriest to speak, spoke. I wasn't hungry in that same way. I was hungry to listen.
Rachel Kushner quotes: The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be. The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks. I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us. I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.
Rachel Kushner quotes: The VW doesn't make you think of Hitler and genocide. It's a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream. The VW doesn't make you think of Hitler and genocide. It's a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers. Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history. Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction. Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.
Rachel Kushner quotes: The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold. The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly. Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I don't like the info-dump, as it's known. I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool. Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
Rachel Kushner quotes: The thing suppressed as an intrusion," Eric said, "is almost always worth looking at. The thing suppressed as an intrusion," Eric said, "is almost always worth looking at.
Rachel Kushner quotes: People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people. People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.
Rachel Kushner quotes: The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny. The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place. Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place.
Rachel Kushner quotes: 'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer. 'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts. I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way. I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Proust is a huge author for me. Proust is a huge author for me.
Rachel Kushner quotes: My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good. My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
Rachel Kushner quotes: It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story. It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
Rachel Kushner quotes: There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle. There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle.
Rachel Kushner quotes: For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is. For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.
Rachel Kushner quotes: For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't. For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
Rachel Kushner quotes: One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic. One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
Rachel Kushner quotes: People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with. People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.
Rachel Kushner quotes: We're all performing for someone. We're all performing for someone.
Rachel Kushner quotes: A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death. A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.
Rachel Kushner quotes: A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political. A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
Rachel Kushner quotes: Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think. Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.
Rachel Kushner quotes: I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience. I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
Rachel Kushner quotes: To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something. To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.

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