Rachel Quotes

I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there are different lakes.

I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.

At a certain age just being around particular people is an event.

There is no real appeal for me in an image of a woman on a motorcycle.

Motorcycles aren't about gaining agency, I don't think.

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.

Authenticity is too big a subject to just toss in with the question about the photographs!

Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.

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.

Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

You have time. Meaning don't use it, but pass through time in patience, waiting for something to come. Prepare for its arrival. Don't rush to meet it. Be a conduit.

People who are harder to love pose a challenge, and the challenge makes them easier to love. You're driven to love them. People who want their love easy don't really want love.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.

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.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

The desire for love is universal but that has never meant it’s worthy of respect. It’s not admirable to want love, it just is.

I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.

The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.

Wild flowers grow where they will.

People who disagree on important issues don't agree on the facts.

I think of my job on television as explaining things.

I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird!

The downside of playing dumb is that you sound dumb.

I'm not sure, but [Russia] might be happy to see this guy [Dan Fried] exiting stage left.

The [Donald] Trump campaign turned on a dime instantly as soon as those WikiLeaks dumps started.

There's no way to tweak your content in order to goose ratings. You do what you're good at and let people follow you.

I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.

I care a lot about what my girlfriend thinks, and my friends, but ultimately it's me in the mirror. I just want to be proud of what I do.

It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.

I don't want to insert myself into the story. I just want to give a useful analysis of it to help people come to their own conclusions.

I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.

We do have evidence the [Donald] Trump campaign was working to sideline Russian intervention in Ukraine as a campaign issue.

What was particularly impressive by the [Donald] Trump campaign at the time is how they were so organized around the WikiLeaks stuff.

[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to this country. That's very popular in Republican politics .

[Tom Cotton] is seen as a real rising star in the Republican Party. He's the youngest member of the United States Senate, routinely described as an up and comer.

Russian government attacked our election.

[Tom Cotton] has been an absolute champion of the idea of getting rid of Obamacare, scrapping the Affordable Care Act.

I never thought when I was a kid that I would become an adult. I never thought of myself as having any sort of distant horizon. I have sort of leapt without a master plan.

There's nothing about the way my life unfolded that should be seen as at all prescriptive for what anybody else wants to do.

Anything I really want I can find online.

Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were no longer needed.