There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay … - Rachel Cusk

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Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.

Rachel Cusk

There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

Artist, Aspire, Book, Justice, Pot, Shame

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The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

Fixed, Good, Mother, Reality, Wine

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.

Average, Skin, Skins, Thing, Writers, Writing

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

Being A Mother, Feelings, Motherhood, Sense, Sort, Women

That's writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn't turn up.

Passion, Space, Turn, Writing

I have absolutely no concept of work, except for university. But I like to talk to people a lot about their jobs.

Jobs, People, University