Katherine Dunn Quotes

Here are of our favorite quote from American Novelist Katherine Dunn.

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

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

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.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

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

Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.
Katherine Dun

Let’s just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.

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

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

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

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyones comfort

The truth is always an insult or joke. Lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone’s comfort.

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

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.’ Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

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

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns – the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

We’re also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

We have been permitted to turn our back on the frailty of life. I mean we live so much longer, and the constant presence of death is part of life.

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

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.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.

Kids die now by either murder or accident – no disease on any scale except rare diseases and they’re an anomaly.What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that’s always very flattering.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns – the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

We’re also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

We have been permitted to turn our back on the frailty of life. I mean we live so much longer, and the constant presence of death is part of life.

Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.

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.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Oh, of course, I always feel unconfident.

Kids die now by either murder or accident – no disease on any scale except rare diseases and they’re an anomaly.

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