Rachel Kushner Quotes
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When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
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Italy in the Seventies seems like a fascinating place.
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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.
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
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I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
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Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tender' or 'universal.' But to the real question of what's inside: I avoid books that seem to conservatively follow stale formulas. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that.
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I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.
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A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
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For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
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We're all performing for someone.