“For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fu...” — Rachel Kushner Quote

For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.

Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

It's fun to watch a show that you can watch with any member of your family, and you're going to laugh, and you're going to be moved, and you're going to have fun, rather than this dark, brooding, cold, 'purely procedural show.'

No matter how successful I may get, I'll always be a failed musician, sitting at a concert double-fisting overpriced twenty-ounce beers, wishing it was me on stage brooding soulfully to my fans. I had my shot once, but I let it slip through my fingers.

No man can ever repay the brooding mother love to which he his life.

It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.