Katherine Dunn

I'm just a regular Joe.

— Katherine Dunn

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

— Katherine Dunn

Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Katherine Dunn

It took seventeen years to get from my second novel, 'Truck,' to my third, 'Geek Love.'

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Katherine Dunn

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

— Katherine Dunn

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

— 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

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

— Katherine Dunn

“What greater gift could you offer your children than an inherent ability to earn a living just by being themselves?”

— Katherine Dunn

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to…

— Katherine Dunn

I hate to tell you this, but I did not know what the National Book Award was when I got the call.

— Katherine Dunn

The things we do to our children - most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but…

— Katherine Dunn

“What's bred in the bones, when you have bones, comes through. And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her…

— Katherine Dunn

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and…

— Katherine Dunn

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion…

— Katherine Dunn

I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested…

— Katherine Dunn

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as…

— Katherine Dunn

My background is standard American blue collar of the itchy-footed variety. We're new-world mongrels. The women in the family read horoscopes, tea…

— Katherine Dunn

“How proud I am, dancing in the air full of eyes rubbing at me uncovered, unable to look away because of what…

— Katherine Dunn

When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery…

— Katherine Dunn

Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous.…

— Katherine Dunn

The denial of female aggression is a destructive myth. It robs an entire gender of a significant spectrum of power, leaving women…

— Katherine Dunn

We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my…

— 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

I do consider the human capacity for violence is the central issue of the social contract. In boxing we have a peculiarly…

— Katherine Dunn

Sometimes people go off in a slightly different direction of wanting to be different, of wanting to be special, of wanting to…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

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

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Katherine Dunn

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

— Katherine Dunn