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I suppose, I said, it is one definition of love, the belief in something that only the two of you can see. — Rachel Cusk

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it. — Rachel Cusk

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of. — Rachel Cusk

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying. — Rachel Cusk

The British have always made terrible parents. — Rachel Cusk

To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded. — Rachel Cusk

Divorce also entails the beginning of a supposition that that familial reality might have obstructed one's ability to perceive others. — Rachel Cusk

Modern morality is all about perception. — Rachel Cusk

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up. — Rachel Cusk

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture. — Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights. — Julie Burchill

Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back. — Rachel Cusk

Money is a country all its own, — Rachel Cusk

I mean, you never hear someone say they wanted to have an affair but they couldn't find the time, do you? — Rachel Cusk

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more. — Rachel Cusk

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion. — Rachel Cusk

I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back. — Rachel Cusk

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them. — Rachel Cusk

I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole? — Rachel Cusk

They walked in straight lines that the dogs scribbled all over. — Rachel Cusk

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me. — Rachel Cusk

I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator. — Rachel Cusk

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything. — Rachel Cusk

A lot of people want to be writers: there was no reason to think you couldn't buy your way into it. — Rachel Cusk

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

What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer? — Rachel Cusk

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves. — Rachel Cusk

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

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime. — Rachel Cusk

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one? — Rachel Cusk

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people. — Rachel Cusk

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse. — 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

Most of didn't know how truly good or truly bad we were, and most of us would never be sufficiently tested to find out. — Rachel Cusk

It seems success takes you away from what you know, [Athenian plane passenger] said, while failure condemns you to it. — Rachel Cusk

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority. — Rachel Cusk

And of those two ways of living - living in the moment and living outside it - which was more real? — Rachel Cusk

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge. — Rachel Cusk

So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too. — Rachel Cusk

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience. — Rachel Cusk

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze. — Rachel Cusk

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life. — Rachel Cusk

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs. — Rachel Cusk

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable. — Rachel Cusk

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time. — Rachel Cusk

And he was more Irish in America than he'd ever been at home. — Rachel Cusk

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them. — Rachel Cusk

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity. — Rachel Cusk

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative. — Rachel Cusk

Yet I still, he said, believe in love. Love restores almost everything, and where it can't restore, it takes away the pain. — Rachel Cusk

But everything falls away, try as you might to stop it. And for whatever returns to you, be grateful. — Rachel Cusk

She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation. — Rachel Cusk