Quotes by Rachel Cusk

About Rachel Cusk:

Rachel Cusk is a Canadian-born novelist and writer who lives and works in the United Kingdom.
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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

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It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.

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Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, fre...

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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and some...

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In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

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It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.

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Modern morality is all about perception.

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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

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Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

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A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

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It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

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I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

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Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.

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The British have always made terrible parents.

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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

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Author Bio

  • NameRachel Cusk
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornFebruary 8, 1967
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter