50 Katherine Dunn Quotes for You to Enjoy

Katherine Dunn

American Novelist

Born: Oct 24, 1945

Died: May 11, 2016

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Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied. Katherine Dunn

Entertainment World Living Our High-Tech Abstract Stimulus Quite Much Things

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun. Katherine Dunn

Fiction Grim Hard Fun Even

No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing about the sport for a dozen years by then and wanted to know what boxers endured, what it felt like. I was too old to compete when I started, but I sparred enough to get a taste. Katherine Dunn

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It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males. Katherine Dunn

Time Recognize Variability Females Males Just

Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches. Katherine Dunn

Art Own Demands Art Form Different Form Riches Film

Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two people read exactly the same book. Katherine Dunn

Experience Book People Own Projects Exactly Exactly The Same Inside True Along Read Reader Go Version Same Skull Each Two Two People

Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always. Katherine Dunn

Delivery Prose Lean Always Donald Engaging

My lip curls in a snide reflex whenever I hear that a new novel is written from the point of view of a child or a monster, a lunatic or an animal. I immediately expect a nasty coyness of tone, cheesy artifice, the world through cardboard 3-D lenses. Katherine Dunn

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My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day bloody day of the year - the stiff upper lip is petrified sugar; that's Bermuda's revenge, the with death, the rotting future square in the teeth of it. Katherine Dunn

Death Future Day Every Day Revenge Pure Year Own White Every Sugar Teeth About My Own Properties Consume Qualities Stiff Bloody Mountain Square Lip Upper Theory English Rotting Petrified

In boxing, it just seemed to me from the time I was a very small child, we have a peculiarly civilized form in that boxers don't screech and holler. They don't use weapons. When the bell rings, they fight; when the bell rings again, they stop. Katherine Dunn

Time Me Fight Rings Weapons Seemed Small Small Child Civilized Boxers Boxing Very Child Just Stop Form Again Use Bell

I've met some of the most interesting, dimensional, and kind people of my life in that subculture and around the sport. And it seems to me that boxing is one of those structures that is designed to promote harmony. I think that it is a stove that contains that fire in us and makes it safe and useful. Katherine Dunn

Life Me People Stove My Life Fire Met Think Harmony Those Kind Promote Some Seems Structures Contains Most Safe Sport Around Boxing Makes Subculture Interesting Us Useful Designed

Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later, my stepdad managed gas stations in a small town near Portland. Katherine Dunn

Every doorway, every intersection has a story. Katherine Dunn

Every Doorway Story Intersection

Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us. Katherine Dunn

Good Women Reality Dangerous Power Every Society Other Benefit Our Those Bad Feeble Around Real Covers Women Are Endangered Human Just Fierce Capacity Us Whole Deserve

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate. Katherine Dunn

Death Research Everyday Intimate Penicillin Prior Occurrence Medical Medical Research

We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women's aggression isn't considered real. It isn't dangerous; it's only cute. Or it's always self-defense or otherwise inspired by a man. In the rare case where a woman is seen as genuinely responsible, she is branded a monster - an 'unnatural' woman. Katherine Dunn

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I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out. Katherine Dunn

Me Age Words Language Trouble Others Out Some Magic Since Got Been Discovered Very Very Early Age Believer Early Early Age

My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing. Katherine Dunn

Home You Writing School Building Nothing Latin High High School About Write Had Taking Idea Like Understand Handwriting Forms Bricks

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis. Katherine Dunn

Creation Crisis Boxing Formal

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process. Katherine Dunn

Future Dreams Time Heart Awareness City About Delusions Prospects Toxic Boxing Precious Precious Time Blown Process Story Ashes Grim Realities Wasted Universal Fat Chances

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