Rachel Cusk Quotes About Desire

• 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.

  Rachel Cusk

  Writing, Ambition, Creative

  "Rachel Cusk: in praise of the creative writing course" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2013.

• In domestic life the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She "wants" to be at home, and because she is a woman she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.

  Rachel Cusk

  Home, Desire, Want

  "The simmering but stymied rage of stay-at-home mums" by Rachel Cusk, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

• I felt that I could swim for miles, out into the ocean: a desire for freedom, an impulse to move, tugged at me as though it were a thread fastened to my chest. It was an impulse I knew well, and I had learned that it was not the summons from a larger world I used to believe it to be. It was simply a desire to escape from what I had.

  Rachel Cusk

  Believe, Ocean, Moving

  Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline”, p.39, Random House

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