Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk
Rachel Cusk is a Canadian-born novelist and writer who lives and works in the United Kingdom...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
CountryCanada
children waiting annoying
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
inspirational motivational thinking
It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.
baby having-a-baby process
It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.
children creativity writing
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
perception morality modern
Modern morality is all about perception.
sight forever trying
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
new-relationship may facts
Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
writing ambition creative
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.
epidemics eating-disorder body
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
children people firsts
Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
mother ifs fascinated
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
jobs people university
I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.
believe people stories
I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.
writing criticism honest
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.