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Rachel Cusk
6 quotes
“Once you have suffered sufficiently, the idea of making up John and Jane and having them do things together seems utterly ridiculous…”
Rachel Cusk (born 1967) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On feeling that writing fiction was fake and embarrassing, as quoted in Kate Kellaway "Rachel Cusk: 'Aftermath was creative death. I was heading into total silence'" The Guardian (24 August 2014)
“I annoy everybody, not just certain women…I think it is because I'm not interested in the group, only in the individual. What happens is my message enters the conflicted person reading it who is half self, half society but does not know where one begins and the other ends. I light up that conflict and it makes people angry.”
Rachel Cusk (born 1967) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On why her writing might cause a stir, as quoted in Kate Kellaway in "Rachel Cusk: 'Aftermath was creative death. I was heading into total silence'" The Guardian (24 August 2014)
“A journalist recently told me that she had been sent to find out who I was. [...] There seems to be some problem about my identity. But no one can find it, because it’s not there—I have lost all interest in having a self. Being a person has always meant getting blamed for it.”
Rachel Cusk (born 1967) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On abandoning being a memoirist, as quoted in Judith Thurman "Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel" The New Yorker (31 July 2017)
“I worry I don't see things the way everyone else does.”
Rachel Cusk (born 1967) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her anxieties as a writer, as quoted in Cat Zhang "I Have Lost All Interest in Having a Self" Slate (19 September 2019)
“I can't even remember Saving Agnes. I haven't read it in years and years. I don’t think I could read it. It's a strange thing about having been publishing for so long. As with any memory of yourself at twenty-five, it feels like your cellular being has completely changed. It's not just photographs of me with a weird hairstyle at twenty-five—a novel is such an intricate document.”
Rachel Cusk (born 1967) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how an author might revisit one of their earlier novels to reconnect with their past self, as quoted in Sheila Heti "Rachel Cusk, The Art of Fiction No. 246" The Paris Review (No. 232, Spring 2020)
“I could almost divide my life on either side of this line, between the things that are real and the things that are imitating reality and are synthetic or inauthentic, and the awful pain of being in the synthetic life or the synthetic relationship, the one that is a bit like the thing you want but is not it. So that was that book.”
Rachel Cusk (born 1967) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the time periods before and after writing her book The Temporary (1995), as quoted in Sheila Heti "Rachel Cusk, The Art of Fiction No. 246" The Paris Review (Spring 2020)