I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun for the writer." Or rather, that if it is, then the pleasure is a sign that it's good. Maybe I feel I've read that somewhere, other writers saying it, and I just think there is possibly no formula, and I don't like to read an interview with a writer where they just lay out the doxa of what quality is. It can seem brittle to do that.
It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need. - Rachel Kushner
It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.
- Rachel Kushner
I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us. - Rachel Kushner
I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us.
To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something. - Rachel Kushner
To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.
I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's an essential ingredient to making, to art. Certainly on … - Rachel Kushner
I love to be alone, I find it necessary, but I don't know if that's just how I am or if it's an essential ingredient to making, to art. Certainly on …
And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in a… - Rachel Kushner
And here I arrive at my point. The point is that everyone has a different dream. The point is that it is a grave mistake to assume your dream is in a…
I don't really see art as structured by logic. - Rachel Kushner
I don't really see art as structured by logic.
I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the world is speaking to you. Which isn'… - Rachel Kushner
I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the world is speaking to you. Which isn'…
People who want their love easy don't really want love. - Rachel Kushner
People who want their love easy don't really want love.
A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. - Rachel Kushner
A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.
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