“There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze...” — Rachel Cusk Quote

“There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.”

“For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.”

“Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.”

“If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.”

“People will reach out because they know I'm trying to put my best forward when it comes to subject matter and creation of song.”

“I was always very detail-oriented, and in the time I spent in different roles - the elected official, the campaign manager - I had a tendency to want to push the creation of the product and really work on the critical path that would get to product.”