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A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.
Rachel Kushner
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Rachel Kushner
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 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.
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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.
Rachel Kushner
Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!
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For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.
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I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
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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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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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I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.
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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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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.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
Rachel Kushner
People are complicated. Personally I don't go in for puritanical people.
Rachel Kushner
Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.
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I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.
Rachel Kushner
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. Then again, there is a huge gap between me as a person and what I do in the novel.
Rachel Kushner
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
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
Rachel Kushner
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
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 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?
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