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" My lip curls in a snide reflex whenever I hear that a new novel is written from the point of view of a child or a monster, a lunatic or an animal. I immediately expect a nasty coyness of tone, cheesy artifice, the world through cardboard 3-D lenses. "

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" There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity. "

Katherine Dunn

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" In boxing, they say it's the punch you don't see coming that knocks you out. In the wider world, the reality we ignore or deny is the one that weakens our most impassioned efforts toward improvement. "

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

" But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. "

" We came to Portland because there was a good alternative public school. Friends who lived there told me about it, and my son loved it. I left his dad and went to work slinging hash in a breakfast diner and working nights tending bar in a biker tavern. "

" But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here. "

" I come from a family of great readers and storytellers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think that it's really important to go away and come back. "

Katherine Dunn

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

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

" My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it was one of the bricks, the building bricks, that you had to understand about the forms of writing. "

" Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches. "

" Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea. "

" Every doorway, every intersection has a story. "

" I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area. "

" I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object. "

" The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede. "

" We live with a distinct double standard about male and female aggression. Women's aggression isn't considered real. It isn't dangerous; it's only cute. Or it's always self-defense or otherwise inspired by a man. In the rare case where a woman is seen as genuinely responsible, she is branded a monster - an 'unnatural' woman. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process. "