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Rachel Cusk


Canadian
1967
Novelist
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.


Rachel Cusk
Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
Rachel Cusk
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.


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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.
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I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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