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That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

Rachel Cusk
Passion, Writing, Space
Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.

Rachel Cusk
Writing, Average, Skins
"I was only being honest" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. Match 21, 2008.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

Rachel Cusk
Book, Taken, Writing

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

Rachel Cusk
Art, Writing, Self
"Rachel Cusk", www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

There 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
Art, Writing, Reality
"Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.

Rachel Cusk
Writing, Ambition, Creative
"Rachel Cusk: in praise of the creative writing course" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.

I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

Rachel Cusk
Children, Writing, Risk

The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.

Rachel Cusk
Believe, Writing, Understanding

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

Rachel Cusk
Writing, Criticism, Honest
"Can creative writing ever be taught?" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

Rachel Cusk
Children, Writing, Creativity
"Rachel Cusk: in praise of the creative writing course" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.

The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.

Rachel Cusk
Writing, Contemporary Fiction, Needs
"Go Forth (Vol. 34)". Interview with Alice Whitwham, logger.believermag.com. June 17, 2015.

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