Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
Rachel CuskWriting, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.
Rachel CuskI remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
Rachel CuskThere is a slovenly disrespect for truth and reality that has infected and cross-infected the arts; the values of entertainment are relentlessly in the ascendant, to the extent that it becomes virtually impossible to write a naturalistic fictional sentence without feeling that the fabric of that sentence is already compromised.
Rachel Cusk