Katherine Dunn Quotes
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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.
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Boxing gyms are more than training facilities. They are sanctuaries in bad neighborhoods for troubled kids and shrines to the traditions of the sport. The gym is home. For many, it's the safest place they know.
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I wanted to cry, loud and wet with the pain of love.
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I thought if I just told the truth, the human truth, it'd be the truth for everyone.
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The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women less than equal with men and effectively keeping them 'in their place' and under control.
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In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's hand.
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Most professional fighters, male and female, hold day jobs, but the women's game attracts a wide social spectrum: hash slingers, teachers, police officers, landscapers, stuntwomen. Many are wives and mothers. Their husbands or boyfriends work their corners, or hide in arena restrooms, scared to watch their bouts.
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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.
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This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.
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The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.
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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.
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The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.
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I'm just a regular Joe.
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I don't think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought.
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I'd always been fascinated by boxing and became very engaged with it through my husband, actually. But I started to write about it because so many decent, righteous people wanted it banned.
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I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.
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Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.
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I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.
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My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I was 2, and I have never met him and have no memory of him.
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It's not unfair, I think, to describe boxers as a demographic little given to literary entanglement. In general, with exceptions, they prefer movies.
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But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.
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A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
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A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another.
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I was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.