Author: Rachel Kushner

Quotes

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.

- Rachel Kushner

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

- Rachel Kushner

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

- Rachel Kushner

A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.

A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.

- 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

I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

- Rachel Kushner

From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.

From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.

- Rachel Kushner

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

- Rachel Kushner

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

- Rachel Kushner

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