Quotes by : Rachel Cusk

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

The world is constantly evolving, while the family endeavours to stay the same. Updated, refurbished,....

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about....

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 had started to desire power, because what I now realised was that other people had had it all along,....

The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine....

The Cunning Little Vixen, in which a fox is caught by a hunter and kept in a farmyard with the other....