Rachel Cusk Quotes

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

I think it's so fun when I get to work with women writers in particular because we really understand the core story or foundation as women. That's so important to me that the authenticity is there, you know, from the place that I speak from for my women. Having other females with me helps me dig deeper.

Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.

Woman alone can ... speak effectively for woman, since none others can speak with authority, or from the depths of personal experience.

A woman’s point of view is something which cannot be defined. Women, like men, have different views. No political stance could receive the approval of all women.

I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as male ones. The novels I read as a young man were all by women writers, and when I started writing, I wanted to set my books inside the home.

By and large, I think female directors are far more sensitive.

I could do a show with men; I'd love to do that, but it's women that I know and understand.

I think it's important for people to understand that as a woman, I can only rap about the parts I have.

I've written about women's lives, and I just want to write about them from being a woman. I don't need feminism on top of that when I'm writing.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.