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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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Rachel Kushner
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
Journalist
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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 didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible there would be that risk.
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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. Then again, there is a huge gap between me as a person and what I do in the novel.
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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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The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.
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I had been thinking about rubber all along. Like as the novel's element, or base material. A lot of artists in the late '60s and early '70s worked with rubber and other forms that seemed like they connoted industrial detritus. Robert Morris, Eva Hesse.
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People who want their love easy don't really want love.
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A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.
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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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I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.
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Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.
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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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In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have to give good evidence regularly for having that faith in self-either with quality goods or with, at least, good efforts. Working hard will do when inspiration is not forthcoming.
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I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
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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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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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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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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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To be alive is to listen quietly while other people talk. That's how you learn something.
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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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