Rachel Cusk Children Quotations

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

You could time a suburban story by your watch: it lasts as long as it takes a small furry animal that's lonely to find friends, or a small furry animal that's lost to find its parents; it lasts as long as a quick avowal of love; it lasts precisely as long as the average parent is disposed on a Tuesday night to spend reading aloud to children.

I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

I absolutely don't dislike children - I would choose their company over adult company any time.

Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.