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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.

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Rachel Kushner
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
Journalist
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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.
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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.
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Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!
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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.
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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.
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You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing about art, I had met some artists in L.A. They said, Why don't you try living out here? So I traded apartments with the painter Delia Brown. That was in 2003. I loved it. I still love living there.
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In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.
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My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.
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People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.
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Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
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I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the world is speaking to you. Which isn't quite solitude, even if you're alone when it happens.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
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I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.
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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.
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