Rachel Cusk’s Translated Will
To have a child is to surrender one’s will rather than exerting it. The child does not exist as the perfect external realization of an internal intention. His own will interferes in the determination of his outcome.
Rachel Cusk & The Sanctity of the Writer’s Room
So why, we might ask, doesn’t she have manuscripts, notebooks, cocktail napkins—all the anticipated ephemera of the working writer?
It’s because she is a mother.