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Katherine Dunn Quotes

American - Novelist | October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016

Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two people read exactly the same book.

Experience People Book Go True Own

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

Always Delivery Lean Engaging Prose

I don't think there is such a thing as an idea without words, because your language is your thought.

Words Think Thought Language Without

My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day bloody day of the year - the stiff upper lip is petrified sugar; that's Bermuda's revenge, the with death, the rotting future square in the teeth of it.

Future Day Death Mountain Revenge

An intimate core of my being recognizes that there is nothing in me that can go on: there is no spark; there is no infestation of vaporous miasma that has the capacity to continue, and there is nothing in me that wishes to continue. This moment is, for me, all that there is, and I'm willing to accept it. I'm a worm; I have no soul.

Moment Soul Me Spark Wishes Nothing

I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.

Perfection Thought Search Boring

I've met some of the most interesting, dimensional, and kind people of my life in that subculture and around the sport. And it seems to me that boxing is one of those structures that is designed to promote harmony. I think that it is a stove that contains that fire in us and makes it safe and useful.

Life Fire People Me Think My Life

I'd always been fascinated by boxing and became very engaged with it through my husband, actually. But I started to write about it because so many decent, righteous people wanted it banned.

People Husband Boxing Write Always

I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.

Sports People Writing Meetings Know

It's not unfair, I think, to describe boxers as a demographic little given to literary entanglement. In general, with exceptions, they prefer movies.

Think Movies Unfair Little General

Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art.

Art City Internet Fat Long Human

'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.

Sports Pressure Grit Been Metaphor

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