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Rachel Kushner

American Writer

Born: 1968

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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. Rachel Kushner

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I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly. Rachel Kushner

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Publishing is not my world. Rachel Kushner

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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success. Rachel Kushner

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I don't believe in the model of pure inspiration. All of my creative work stems from a dialogue with others. Rachel Kushner

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I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career. Rachel Kushner

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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel. Rachel Kushner

I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour. Rachel Kushner

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Proust is a huge author for me. Rachel Kushner

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Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world. Rachel Kushner

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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A. Rachel Kushner

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Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on. Rachel Kushner

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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences. Rachel Kushner

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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced. Rachel Kushner

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I spent ten years riding motorcycles. Rachel Kushner

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