Rachel Kushner Quotes

Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.

Writing novels is sitting in a room by yourself for a year.

Holy cow - everything about writing a novel is hard for me.

There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.

While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

I don't know how everyone writes a novel; that sounds exhausting.

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things I could try, and one of them was writing a novel.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.