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When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel.

From Rachel Kushner

I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.

From Rachel Kushner

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

From Rachel Kushner

The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.

From Rachel Kushner

Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.

From Rachel Kushner

I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.

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The 1970s seemed particularly playful. People were trying to make work that couldn't be sold.

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The art world is filled with vibrancy.

From Rachel Kushner

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

From Rachel Kushner

Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

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