I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
From Rachel Kushner
Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
I am not fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.
I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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