Rachel Kushner quote: "I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt."

The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time w...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk cal...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same con...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of excl...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.
RACHEL KUSHNER

When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not b...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Y...
RACHEL KUSHNER

My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters decidin...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are i...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mock...
RACHEL KUSHNER

In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the ver...
RACHEL KUSHNER

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reade...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to exp...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tende...
RACHEL KUSHNER

At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place f...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited....
RACHEL KUSHNER

I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Flamethrowers have been used by many armies in many wars, including by American Marines in Korea and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
RACHEL KUSHNER

It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of hom...
RACHEL KUSHNER

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

I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as ha...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I know what it's like to go very fast on motorcycles. Those moments, they stay with you.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.
RACHEL KUSHNER

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on he...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one r...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Proust is a huge author for me.
RACHEL KUSHNER

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

I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appe...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to ...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magaz...
RACHEL KUSHNER

One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topi...
RACHEL KUSHNER

From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and viole...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing e...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really impor...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
RACHEL KUSHNER

Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love a...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I had decided that it is the fate of my generation never to have known the noble law of the sea, and...
RACHEL KUSHNER

She was drunk, as everyone was, most of the time.
RACHEL KUSHNER

Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect chan...
RACHEL KUSHNER

I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much a...
HAROLD KUSHNER

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
HAROLD KUSHNER

Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?

Mormon Mother: Well it has...
TONY KUSHNER

You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Gre...
TONY KUSHNER

The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the...
JARED KUSHNER

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any carto...
TONY KUSHNER

Death takes the good, too good to stay, And leaves the bad, too bad to take away
HAROLD KUSHNER

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
HAROLD KUSHNER

But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was M...
TONY KUSHNER

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a...
TONY KUSHNER

I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the f...
TONY KUSHNER

I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York...
TONY KUSHNER

Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.
JARED KUSHNER

But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresi...
TONY KUSHNER

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.
TONY KUSHNER

'The Observer's Very Short List' is another example of how the Observer Media Group offe...
JARED KUSHNER

My father's favorite movie was 'The Dirty Dozen.'
JARED KUSHNER

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable a...
TONY KUSHNER

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms ...
TONY KUSHNER

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decide...
TONY KUSHNER

I'm going to start work on developing a series for HBO, because I'm naturally given to episo...
TONY KUSHNER

You can't cover up a lot of other workplace sins by just having that proverbial foosball table. But ...
GARY KUSHNER

I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzva...
TONY KUSHNER

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mor...
TONY KUSHNER

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
TONY KUSHNER

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting...
TONY KUSHNER

People are hysterical about the death of newspapers, and I would say, 'They're not dying; th...
JARED KUSHNER

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationshi...
TONY KUSHNER

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on peo...
TONY KUSHNER

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're us...
TONY KUSHNER

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens...
TONY KUSHNER

The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we'v...
TONY KUSHNER

[Some of his characters were underdeveloped, to the extent that their speeches could be (and sometim...
TONY KUSHNER

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, ...
TONY KUSHNER

Most consumer advocates recommend, for a cable company, you want to call once every six months and n...
AVIYA KUSHNER

Sometimes they'll say, 'No, this is only for new customers,' but sometimes there's some bargaining r...
AVIYA KUSHNER

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of...
TONY KUSHNER

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln'...
TONY KUSHNER

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind...
TONY KUSHNER

That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and co...
TONY KUSHNER

Belize: Hell or heaven?

[Roy indicates "Heaven" through a glance]

Belize: Lik...
TONY KUSHNER

A prophet is not a man who tells the future; he is a man who tells the truth.
HAROLD KUSHNER

The major Jewish dietary laws rest on a single premise: Eating meat is a moral compromise. There is ...
HAROLD KUSHNER

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something in...
HAROLD KUSHNER

The ability to forgive and the ability to love are the weapons God has given us to live fully, brave...
HAROLD KUSHNER

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness
HAROLD KUSHNER

As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his...
TONY KUSHNER

I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe...
JARED KUSHNER

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights...
TONY KUSHNER

I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or ...
TONY KUSHNER

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America&...
TONY KUSHNER

Peter Kaplan was a giant.
JARED KUSHNER

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a p...
TONY KUSHNER

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.
TONY KUSHNER

The first day he came in and sang on 'Set Me Free,' we were like, 'OK, this is the guy.' That's why ...
DAVE KUSHNER

It was pretty brutal. The process sucked.
DAVE KUSHNER

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.
TONY KUSHNER

Night flight to San Francisco; chase the moon across America. God, it’s been years since I was on ...
TONY KUSHNER

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The...
TONY KUSHNER

When you think of the coordination this took, it's historic. When you think of the measures that wil...
HARVEY KUSHNER

No one will leave Safer America or saferamerica.com without a significant amount of training into wh...
HARVEY KUSHNER

When you close six embassies in a region in the world, you send a message to the world that not only...
HARVEY KUSHNER

New York is the capital of the world. If you want to hit a symbol, you hit New York. It's also the c...
HARVEY KUSHNER

If I can do things as an employer to make the work interesting, to make it a 'we work hard/we play h...
GARY KUSHNER

It's not even necessarily so much that happy employees are good for business. It is, from [Rich Ande...
GARY KUSHNER

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming...
TONY KUSHNER

To reduce the chances of crime in your home, put a deadbolt in your door, put a peephole in your doo...
MALCOLM KUSHNER

Comic vision often leads to serious solutions.
MALCOLM KUSHNER

A sense of humor means looking at things from an offbeat angle.
MALCOLM KUSHNER

You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to ...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a washing machine? If...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

I no longer ask the young man's question: How far will I go? My questions are now those of the matur...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many pro...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have bee...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

If you have been brave enough to love, and somtimes you won and sometimes you lost; if you have care...
HAROLD S. KUSHNER

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come...
RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain; I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My ...
HAROLD S. KUSHNER

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life ...
~RABBI HAROLD KUSHNER

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into ...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't ...
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.
RABBI HAROLD S. KUSHNER

That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ide...
RACHEL TRUE

I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The s...
RACHEL BLOOM

I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
RACHEL ZOE

If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, &#...
RACHEL ZOE

I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
RACHEL STEVENS

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think ...
RACHEL DRATCH

I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no wa...
RACHEL SKLAR

I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
RACHEL ZOE

It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can&#...
RACHEL ZOE

As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend ...
RACHEL ZOE

The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real ...
RACHEL ZOE

I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
RACHEL ZOE

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
RACHEL ZOE

I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we ...
RACHEL ZOE

As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown bra...
RACHEL ZOE

The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sap...
RACHEL ZOE

Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much...
RACHEL ZOE

I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the ...
RACHEL ZOE

When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb...
RACHEL ZOE

I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
RACHEL ZOE

I think people should look cute all the time.
RACHEL ZOE

I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is...
RACHEL ZOE

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulde...
RACHEL ZOE

I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.
RACHEL ZOE

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't h...
RACHEL ZOE

I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
RACHEL ZOE

Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
RACHEL ZOE

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.
RACHEL WEISZ

The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
RACHEL WEISZ

That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as ...
RACHEL WEISZ

L.A. makes you feel ugly.
RACHEL WEISZ

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're wri...
RACHEL WEISZ

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Eve...
RACHEL WEISZ

If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like th...
RACHEL WEISZ

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people w...
RACHEL WEISZ

I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
RACHEL WEISZ

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by th...
RACHEL WEISZ

I find Hollywood really toxic.
RACHEL WEISZ

I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what...
RACHEL WEISZ

You have your real life and then you have your work.
RACHEL WEISZ

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ...
RACHEL WEISZ

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite ...
RACHEL WEISZ

It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same ...
RACHEL WEISZ

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive aro...
RACHEL WEISZ

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; wh...
RACHEL WEISZ

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in peop...
RACHEL WEISZ

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
RACHEL WEISZ

As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've ne...
RACHEL WEISZ

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in t...
RACHEL WEISZ

I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
RACHEL WEISZ

You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say th...
RACHEL WEISZ

People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one t...
RACHEL WEISZ

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
RACHEL WEISZ

Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
RACHEL WARD

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually...
RACHEL WARD

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I ...
RACHEL WARD

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
RACHEL WARD

All anything takes, really, is confidence.
RACHEL WARD

There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not li...
RACHEL WARD

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and ch...
RACHEL WARD

You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fan...
RACHEL WARD

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque po...
RACHEL WARD

It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ...
RACHEL TUCKER

When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as ...
RACHEL TUCKER

'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the R...
RACHEL TUCKER

We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens bla...
RACHEL TUCKER

I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.

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Rachel Kushner

I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.

Rachel Kushner

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