Quotes by Katherine Dunn

About Katherine Dunn:

Katherine Karen Dunn is a best-selling novelist, journalist, voice artist, radio personality, book reviewer, and poet from Portland, Oregon. She is best known for the novel Geek Love.
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The child, screaming for refuge, senses how feeble a shelter the twig hut of grown-up awareness is. They claim strength, these parents, and complete sanctuary. The weeping earth itself knows how desperate is the child's need for exactly that sanctuar...

Katherine Dunn

I knew what he felt. The huge buoyant air sack of love that filled his body had just exploded and the collapse was devastating.

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I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Katherine Dunn

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

Katherine Dunn

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

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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

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

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The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

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Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

Katherine Dunn

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.

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The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

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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.

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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.

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But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

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The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

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And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet.

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Author Bio

  • NameKatherine Dunn
  • DescriptionNovelist, journalist, poet
  • BornOctober 24, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist