Rachel Kushner Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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I always have issues with trust.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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My first thought is always of light.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I used to be really insecure about my self-education. I'm definitely always learning. But there's many ways to learn. There are many, many ways to always be a learner.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
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I have to say goodbye to things in order to take on bigger things that I've always wanted to do.
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We always make music and continue to make hits.
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I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I find that quite hard. And I always wear high heels on stage, which can be painful.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.
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We need to pray and read the Bible every day, and regardless of whatever else happens to you, that tends to keep you close to Him, because you are constantly in touch through His Word.
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I hate to badmouth any book or writer, because I know how it feels to be on the other end of that.
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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.
