Canadian - Novelist | February 8, 1967 -
What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.
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