Katherine Dunn

I'm just a regular Joe.

— Katherine Dunn

Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.

— Katherine Dunn

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Katherine Dunn

I'm slow by everybody's standards. But not by mine.

— Katherine Dunn

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

— Katherine Dunn

Women who pay their own rent don't have to be nice.

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Katherine Dunn

I thought if I just told the truth, the human truth, it'd be the truth for everyone.

— Katherine Dunn

My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Katherine Dunn

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes…

— Katherine Dunn

They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true…

— Katherine Dunn

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their…

— Katherine Dunn

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad…

— Katherine Dunn

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.

— Katherine Dunn

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

— Katherine Dunn

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

— Katherine Dunn

“There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough.”

— Katherine Dunn

In the United States, female fisticuffs were marginalized, first as erotic vaudeville in the 19th century and later as serious competition developed…

— Katherine Dunn

My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume…

— Katherine Dunn

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…

— Katherine Dunn

How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the…

— Katherine Dunn

There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant…

— Katherine Dunn

No, I've never competed. I did, however, train in a boxing gym with a good coach beginning in 1993. I'd been writing…

— Katherine Dunn

“Just as a snowflake went on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, the pumpkin patch is…

— Katherine Dunn

I've met some of the most interesting, dimensional, and kind people of my life in that subculture and around the sport. And…

— Katherine Dunn

“The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents,…

— Katherine Dunn

“Dear daughter, I won't try to call my feeling for Arty love. Call it focus. My focus on Art was an ailment,…

— Katherine Dunn

From the time I was little, I'd been kind of freaked out by the whole deal with large groups of people. And…

— Katherine Dunn

“Arty's growing flock, however, was different. I dreamed one night that Arty cried them into the world. They came out of his…

— Katherine Dunn

My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. That's who I perceive us to be as a species.…

— Katherine Dunn

Within a social structure, a familial structure, or a cultural structure of various kinds, there is a substitute for actual freedom. I…

— Katherine Dunn

Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards.…

— Katherine Dunn

Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated,…

— Katherine Dunn

I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Katherine Dunn

Every doorway, every intersection has a story.

— Katherine Dunn

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

— Katherine Dunn

Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.

— Katherine Dunn