Rachel Cusk

Born 1967

Quotes

“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, as quoted in Kate Kel
“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, as quoted in Judith Thurman "Rachel Cusk Gut-Re
“I worry I don't see things the way everyone else does.”
On her anxieties as a writer, as quoted in Cat Zhang "I Have Lost All Interest i

Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0), chosen with AI.

Books by Rachel Cusk in the order they were published, from Saving Agnes (1993) to Parade (2024).