Katherine Dunn Quotes
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I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.
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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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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.
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There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.
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A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.
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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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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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Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.
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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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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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My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
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Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
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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 was reading a lot of European history, and I thought Attila the Hun had gotten a bad rap.
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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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Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.
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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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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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I had maggot brains that night and may have imagined half of it, and misunderstood the rest.
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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.