Quotes by Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner

The novel is a big space, and a lot can happen. Just think about the parts of your life. How do we account for our own contradictions? The only way to understand them is to let them exist, as truths that indicate something about character. People are built of elements that don’t fit together – and the conflict of that is their essential drive.

Character

People

Thinking

The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

Dream

Make You Think

Thinking

There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle.

Appeals

Motorcycle

Real

Violence, factory politics – these things simply form some bedrock of what interests me, but I’m a child of the twentieth century. And I don’t see reality and its violence, wars, oppression, etc., and fiction as counterposed.

Children

Reality

War

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 that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

Doe

Fiction

Use

Writing is a way of living. It doesn’t quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It’s a way of being alive, for the writer.

Book

Numbers

Writing

You have time. Meaning don’t use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don’t rush to meet it. Be a conduit.

Rough Times

Use

Waiting

You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you’re independently wealthy, which I’m not. But, from writing about art, I had met some artists in L.A. They said, “Why don’t you try living out here?” So I traded apartments with the painter Delia Brown. That was in 2003. I loved it. I still love living there.

Art

Trying

Writing

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Appeals

Art

Art Is

Artist

Authenticity

Believe

Book

Car

Challenges

Character

Childhood

Children

Claims

Complicated

Cracks

Desire

Different

Doe

Dream

Female

Fiction

Fun

Growing Up

Helping

Home

Ideas

Impact

Inspiration

Jobs

Kids

Life Is

Logic

Love Is

Love You

Lying

Make You Think

Mean

Men

Mind

Moral High Ground

Morris

Mother

Motorcycle

New York

Numbers

Opinion

People

Photograph

Play

Political

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Quotes by Rachel Kushner

Rachel Kushner

The VW doesn’t make you think of Hitler and genocide. It’s a breast on wheels, a puffy little dream.

There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle.

Violence, factory politics – these things simply form some bedrock of what interests me, but I’m a child of the twentieth century. And I don’t see reality and its violence, wars, oppression, etc., and fiction as counterposed.

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 that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn’t quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It’s a way of being alive, for the writer.

You have time. Meaning don’t use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don’t rush to meet it. Be a conduit.

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