Rachel Cusk Quotes

Rachel Cusk is a Canadian-born novelist and writer who lives and works in the United Kingdom.

✵ 8. February 1967
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Famous Rachel Cusk Quotes

“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.”

On abandoning being a memoirist in “Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/07/rachel-cusk-gut-renovates-the-novel in the New Yorker (Aug 2017)

“I worry I don’t see things the way everyone else does.”

On her anxieties as a writer (as quoted in “I Have Lost All Interest in Having a Self” https://slate.com/culture/2019/09/coventry-rachel-cusk-review.html) (2019 Sep 19)

“Once you have suffered sufficiently, the idea of making up John and Jane and having them do things together seems utterly ridiculous…”

On feeling that writing fiction was fake and embarrassing in “Rachel Cusk: 'Aftermath was creative death. I was heading into total silence'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/24/rachel-cusk-interview-aftermath-outline in The Guardian (2014 Aug 24)

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