Rachel Kushner Quotes

If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, that’s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.

I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

To me, writing is the most fun. It's not always fun, but finally when you make it come out the way you want, it's then you can say, 'It's fun, boy.'

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

I get a great high from writing.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

I probably get more satisfaction from making a show than being on a show.

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.