Rachel Cusk Quotes

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

Rachel Cusk

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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.

Becki Newton
- Time
- Great
- School
I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.

Vicki Lawrence
- Me
- Lucky
- Flow
Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.

Harold Bloom
- Different
- Art
- Death
I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

Hannah Storm
- Bad
- Mom
- Player
When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

G. Willow Wilson
I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.

Dan Scanlon
- Why
- Trust
- Lead