Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Some writers get snooty about what happens when their books are adapted to film, but I don't feel that way. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school:… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
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… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
