My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
Rachel KushnerI am occasionally enraptured by Western landscape. But I don't identify that state of mind as having to do with my own origins, having grown up in the West, although I certainly crisscrossed Nevada countless times growing up, and then as a young adult, in cars and on motorcycles.
Rachel KushnerFor me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.
Rachel KushnerI do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of me, which is nothing compared to the life of an artist. Writers can live in obscurity and come out of the woodwork with a book, then go back in. Artists donโt have that luxury.
Rachel Kushner