Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
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. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I’m interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
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 sort of way. I think that’s not right and that it’s just because they don’t understand the discourse. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
I don’t believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others. Rachel Kushner Read Quote
