Katherine Dunn Quotes

Most professional fighters, male and female, hold day jobs, but the women's game attracts a wide social spectrum: hash slingers, teachers, police officers, landscapers, stuntwomen. Many are wives and mothers. Their husbands or boyfriends work their corners, or hide in arena restrooms, scared to watch their bouts.

Katherine Dunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016

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I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

Jennifer Ehle

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Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.

John Collison

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I want to understand the anger in the world.

John Tiffany

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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.

Steve Earle

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It's good to pay high taxes - you have free schools, free universities. It's a much more decent society than those where everybody pays their own way, and some people don't get anything.

Stellan Skarsgard

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I feel like I've been playing Spider-Man my whole life. He's a character I've been pretending to be in my bedroom since I was a kid - so I've been preparing for this forever, I think.

Tom Holland

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If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

Mo Rocca

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I write about eight hours a day, and I throw away most of what I write.

Jason Molina

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I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.

Dick Schaap

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All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.

Deb Caletti

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I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

Deborah Eisenberg

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I gave birth aged 45, which was a bit of a shock.

Cornelia Parker

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