Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of … - Rachel Cusk

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

Rachel Cusk

Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

Black, Comedy, Community, Quaintly, Quite, Thinking

Same Author Quotes

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

Similar Quotes

Jason Katims

People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

Growing Up, Kids, People, Think, Thinking

John Molson

An honest brew makes its own friends.

Brew, Friends, Honest

Shaun White

I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.

Different, Game, Games, Make, Position, Want

Washington Allston

Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject. . . It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.

Color, Enchanted, Eye, Giving, Things

Madonna Ciccone

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Degradation, Doe, Encourage, Good, Media, Stupidity