I spent ten years riding motorcycles.Rachel KushnerTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
“Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.”Rachel KushnerCuban
“I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.”Rachel Kushner
“The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle before a car.”John TravoltaMotorcycle
“I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.”Henry RollinsMotorcycle
“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.”Rachel KushnerKnowing
“I think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.”Rachel KushnerArt World
“When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.”Rachel KushnerAppropriate
“It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.”Vin DieselMotorcycle
“If I was making motorcycles and they came and took one, would that be a crime? Why can't we punish people for stealing songs? There should be a $10,000 fine for that.”Doyle Wolfgang von FrankensteinMotorcycle