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Discover the thoughtful Quotes of Katherine Dunn, a philosopher and author. Our collection of his most impactful quotes reflects his deep understanding of language, philosophy, and history. Motivational Quotes of Katherine Dunn
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Katherine Dunn

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

– Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer’s fancy.

– Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

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

– Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

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

– Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

The things we do to our children – most of the evil in the world is not done with bad intentions but with the best intentions ever.

– Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

We’re living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.

– Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

Behind every locked door on Skid Road are a thousand stories.

– Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

A true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.

– Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

My dad was a third-generation printer and linotype operator, by all accounts a fabulous ballroom dancer. He was jettisoned from the family before I was 2, and I have never met him and have no memory of him.

– Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

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

– Katherine Dunn

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 leaves, coffee bubbles, Tarot cards and palms.

– Katherine Dunn

Katherine Dunn

I don’t like to see anyone suffer, and there’s a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

– Katherine Dunn

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