Katherine Dunn Quotes
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The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.
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I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.
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The molasses voice pours into the sponge ear of the microphone and is transformed into silent, pulsing waves that radiate over a hundred miles.
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I think it is the natural and innate function of certain organisms to secrete beauty in permanent forms we call artworks, to respond to beauty by answering its discovery with a new beauty.
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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.
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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
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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.
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Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.
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I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.
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Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.
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I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.
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Behind every locked door on Skid Road are a thousand stories.
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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.
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I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.
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My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
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I had maggot brains that night and may have imagined half of it, and misunderstood the rest.
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Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way.
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There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.
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Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.
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Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
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'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.
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Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.
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I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.