Rachel Cusk's books are like pop-up volumes for grown-ups, the prose springing out of the page to bop you neatly between the eyes with its insights.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.
One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.
I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.
I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.