Rachel Kushner Quotes - Page 2

• No estoy menospreciando el mundo del arte. En absoluto. De hecho, me lo tomo bastante en serio. Pero la lógica del arte es una lógica de vanguardia que presiona al arte para que incorpore el cociente de riesgo.

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  Arte, Riesgo, Mundo

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• El arte tiene que ver con el juego y con significados trascendentes, no reducibles a la política.

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  Arte, juego, arte es

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• En casa, de vez en cuando dedico días enteros a leer como si fuera un convaleciente. El lugar ideal para ello es la bañera, donde el cuerpo flota libre. Los libros se agitan un poco, pero son míos, así que a quién le importa.

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  Libro, Lectura, Inicio

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• I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

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  Believe, Outcomes, Chaos

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

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  Writing, Years, Crafts

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• 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.

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  Knowing, Narrators, Firsts

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• Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it.

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  Art, Soul, Technique

  "The Flamethrowers". Book by Rachel Kushner, April 2, 2013.

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• The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

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  Growing Up, Kids, Smell

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• I guess I still feel that way and yet I'm slightly hesitant to insist on that idea, that it "better be fun for the writer." Or rather, that if it is, then the pleasure is a sign that it's good. Maybe I feel I've read that somewhere, other writers saying it, and I just think there is possibly no formula, and I don't like to read an interview with a writer where they just lay out the doxa of what quality is. It can seem brittle to do that.

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  Fun, Thinking, Quality

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

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  Escribir, Intentar, Ficción

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• I didn't think of the narrative as making a judgment. It didn't occur to me the reader would either, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible there would be that risk.

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  Mean, Thinking, Risk

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• You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not. But, from writing about art, I had met some artists in L.A. They said, "Why don't you try living out here?" So I traded apartments with the painter Delia Brown. That was in 2003. I loved it. I still love living there.

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  Art, Writing, Trying

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character. Then again, there is a huge gap between me as a person and what I do in the novel.

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  Book, Character, Novel

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.

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  Art, Community, World

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's unfortunately true that if you mess up a single detail of the art world the whole thing seems false, and most writers are not in a position to get the details right, because they don't hang around with artists. It's not something you can get the vague gist of. It's too specific.

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  Arte, Artista, Mundo

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At a certain age just being around particular people is an event.

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  People, Age

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think some of those life experiences influenced me in terms of the main character of The Flamethrowers. But for the parts where the community of artists are speaking above her level of participation, that probably came more out of my experience of being in New York in the '90s as an adult.

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  Children, Character, Artist

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• En cuanto al "relleno tradicional de la ficción realista del siglo XXI", quizá sea algo que evito. No me gusta la psicologización estándar en las novelas. No creo que la historia de fondo sea la historia que se necesita. Y no creo que sea más propio de la vida conseguirlo: la construcción del "carácter" a través de la historia psicológica y familiar, toda la idea de "saber lo que quiere el personaje". La gente en la vida real tan a menudo no saben lo que quieren. La gente se engaña a sí misma, se miente, se engaña. Se llama supervivencia y automitología.

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  Real, Mentir, Creer

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do study Marcel Proust, for multiple technical virtuosities but also his swerve, as you say, between characters and in scenes. Certain films can help for that, too, in terms of understanding how multiple conversations at a table, or in a room, can take place and remain separate, and dissonant, and also gather themselves, accidentally, into a collective rhythm and an affect.

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  Character, Understanding, Helping

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• I had been thinking about rubber all along. Like as the novel's element, or base material. A lot of artists in the late '60s and early '70s worked with rubber and other forms that seemed like they connoted industrial detritus. Robert Morris, Eva Hesse.

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  Artist, Thinking, Morris

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• I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.

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  Pain, Thinking

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• While it might be true that our reality would suggest that more writers would address these elemental issues of modern life - work, the marketplace, brutality, race - I'm not sure I have enough of a sense in aggregate of what the dominant novelists are doing to comment on why less do, or if less do. Maybe that's partly because I don't feel woven into any kind of fabric of contemporaries; I just read what I read, and do what I do.

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  Reality, Kind, Modern

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• I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there are different lakes.

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  Thinking, Different

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle.

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  Real, Motorcycle, Appeals

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• There was lots of pleasure in writing The Flamethrowers. Then again, what is pleasure? Some pleasure is easy and other kinds are never quite felt, existing only as the residue of hard work, or more as satisfaction than thrill.

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  Hard Work, Writing, Never Quit

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