Top 120 Quotes by Rachel Kushner

About Rachel Kushner

These are some quotes by American author Rachel Kushner Writer, who was born in 1968.

My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

Rachel Kushner

I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.

I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.

Rachel Kushner

The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.

The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.

Rachel Kushner

Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

Rachel Kushner

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

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

Rachel Kushner

I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.

Rachel Kushner

I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.

I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.

Rachel Kushner

I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

Rachel Kushner

I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.

Rachel Kushner

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.

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.

Rachel Kushner

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