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Rachel Kushner Quotes

The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is Picture Quote #1

It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you Picture Quote #1

You have time. Meaning don’t use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don’t rush to meet it. Be a conduit Picture Quote #1

People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You’re driven to love them. People who want their love easy don’t really want love Picture Quote #1

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 any way shared, that it’s a common dream. Not only is it not shared, not common, there is no reason to assume that other people don’t find you and your dream utterly revolting Picture Quote #1

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it Picture Quote #1

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Writing is a way of living. It doesn’t quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It’s a way of being alive, for the writer Picture Quote #1

To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That’s how you learn something Picture Quote #1

I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of me, which is nothing compared to the life of an artist. Writers can live in obscurity and come out of the woodwork with a book, then go back in. Artists don’t have that luxury Picture Quote #1

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don’t look carefully at what isn’t acceptable to you Picture Quote #1

I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us Picture Quote #1

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political Picture Quote #1

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I am not a sun person at all. I think it’s a cancerous poison and I don’t want it touching me Picture Quote #1

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image Picture Quote #1

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I’m interested in what they say and how they say it Picture Quote #1

I’m a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I’m happy that way Picture Quote #1

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are? Picture Quote #1

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually Picture Quote #1

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It’s really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I’m every character Picture Quote #1

L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it’s unglamorous in all the right ways Picture Quote #1

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours Picture Quote #1

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The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is (Rachel Kushner Quotes) It was not the case that one thing morphed into another, child into woman. You remained the person you were before things happened to you. The person you were when you thought a small cut string could determine the course of a year. You also became the person to whom certain things happened. Who passed into the realm where you no longer questioned the notion of being trapped in one form. You took on that form, that identity, hoped for its recognition from others, hoped someone would love it and you (Rachel Kushner Quotes) You have time. Meaning don’t use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don’t rush to meet it. Be a conduit (Rachel Kushner Quotes) People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You’re driven to love them. People who want their love easy don’t really want love (Rachel Kushner Quotes) 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 any way shared, that it’s a common dream. Not only is it not shared, not common, there is no reason to assume that other people don’t find you and your dream utterly revolting (Rachel Kushner Quotes) Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it (Rachel Kushner Quotes) Writing is a way of living. It doesn’t quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It’s a way of being alive, for the writer (Rachel Kushner Quotes) To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That’s how you learn something (Rachel Kushner Quotes) I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of me, which is nothing compared to the life of an artist. Writers can live in obscurity and come out of the woodwork with a book, then go back in. Artists don’t have that luxury (Rachel Kushner Quotes) Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don’t look carefully at what isn’t acceptable to you (Rachel Kushner Quotes) I was doing that thing the infatuated do, stitching destiny onto the person we want stitched to us (Rachel Kushner Quotes) A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political (Rachel Kushner Quotes) I am not a sun person at all. I think it’s a cancerous poison and I don’t want it touching me (Rachel Kushner Quotes) I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image (Rachel Kushner Quotes) I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I’m interested in what they say and how they say it (Rachel Kushner Quotes) I’m a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I’m happy that way (Rachel Kushner Quotes) I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are? (Rachel Kushner Quotes) I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually (Rachel Kushner Quotes) It’s really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I’m every character (Rachel Kushner Quotes) L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it’s unglamorous in all the right ways (Rachel Kushner Quotes) When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours (Rachel Kushner Quotes)

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