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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rachel Cusk quotes: The British have always made terrible parents.

The British have always made terrible parents.

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

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

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

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

Rachel Cusk quotes: Modern morality is all about perception.

Modern morality is all about perception.

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

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

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

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 quotes: 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?

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 quotes: Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

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

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

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

Rachel Cusk quotes: Money is a country all its own,

Money is a country all its own,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rachel Cusk quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

Rachel Cusk quotes: If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

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

Rachel Cusk quotes: A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.

Rachel Cusk quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rachel Cusk quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: But everything falls away, try as you might to stop it. And for whatever returns to you, be grateful.

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