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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.

Rachel Kushner

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Rachel Kushner
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 1
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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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People who experience themselves as authentic are also experiencing themselves as myth, but that's not the narrative they're going with.
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I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.
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Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there are different lakes.
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A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious.
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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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People who want their love easy don't really want love.
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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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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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Leave, with no answer. Move on to the next question.
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Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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I don't regard the real and true and authentic as something to claim as a moral high ground.
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