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I grew up in Oregon, and then I lived in San Francisco and New York.

- Rachel Kushner
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For me, art is not 'brooding.' It comes from someplace that is more fun and that has a kind of electricity to it.

When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

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.

I knew that I wanted to write about a very young woman because I wanted to see the eyes of the art world in a fresh or even slightly naive way. Because there's something very honest about entering a room and not having a read on everyone there.

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.

My parents were hippies.

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