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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it. — Rachel Kushner

Publishing is not my world. — Rachel Kushner

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

I don't really see art as structured by logic. — Rachel Kushner

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

A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment. — Rachel Kushner

She was drunk, as everyone was, most of the time. — Rachel Kushner

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

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

Sandro never cared about reciprocity. Sex is not about exchange values, he said. It's a gift economy. — Rachel Kushner

A novel is not a rant. — Rachel Kushner

I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A. — Rachel Kushner

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

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

Whatever she was or wasn't, she looked like a liar and he liked liars. — Rachel Kushner

I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground. — Rachel Kushner

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

I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely. — Rachel Kushner

Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it. — Rachel Kushner

I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding. — Rachel Kushner

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

Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think. — Rachel Kushner

I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.' — Rachel Kushner

The art world is filled with vibrancy. — Rachel Kushner

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

She smiled at him like they were about to rob a bank together. — Rachel Kushner

Prayer is so complicated. — Rachel Kushner

I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York. — Rachel Kushner

...his ridiculousness was a form of vitality. — Rachel Kushner

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics. — Rachel Kushner

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

I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance. — Rachel Kushner

To be young was to be more closely rooted to the thing that forms you, — Rachel Kushner

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

I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often. — Rachel Kushner

When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable. — Rachel Kushner

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

From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized. — Rachel Kushner

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs! — Rachel Kushner

Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones. — Rachel Kushner

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

I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others. — Rachel Kushner

I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like. — Rachel Kushner

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

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

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

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

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

I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work. — Rachel Kushner

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics. — Rachel Kushner

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

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

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced. — Rachel Kushner

I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you. — Rachel Kushner

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

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

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks. — Rachel Kushner

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us. — Rachel Kushner

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

Danny Lyon is one of my favorite photographers. — Rachel Kushner

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

Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction. — Rachel Kushner

The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold. — Rachel Kushner

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. — Rachel Kushner

Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly. — Rachel Kushner

I don't like the info-dump, as it's known. — Rachel Kushner

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

The thing suppressed as an intrusion," Eric said, "is almost always worth looking at. — Rachel Kushner

People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people. — Rachel Kushner

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

Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place. — Rachel Kushner

'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer. — Rachel Kushner

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts. — Rachel Kushner

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way. — Rachel Kushner

Proust is a huge author for me. — Rachel Kushner

My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good. — Rachel Kushner

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

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

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is. — Rachel Kushner

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

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic. — Rachel Kushner

People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with. — Rachel Kushner

We're all performing for someone. — Rachel Kushner

A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death. — Rachel Kushner

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political. — Rachel Kushner

Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think. — Rachel Kushner

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience. — Rachel Kushner

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something. — Rachel Kushner