Author: Katherine Dunn

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I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

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.

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

- Katherine Dunn

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.

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.

- Katherine Dunn

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.

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.

- 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.

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.

- Katherine Dunn

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

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

I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

- Katherine Dunn

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.

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.

- Katherine Dunn

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'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.

- Katherine Dunn

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