Quotes by : Rachel Cusk

I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged....

As it happened I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even of self-definition....

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr,....

Let's just say that drama became something very real to me that day, she said. It ceased to be theoretical,....

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

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

The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary....

I can see us there still," he said, "for those were moments so intense that in a way we will be living....

She was surprised to discover that Paola was thirty-four. 'What have you been doing all this time?' she....