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"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."
"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."
"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."
"A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write."
"What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true."
"If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!"
"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"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."
"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on."
"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
"I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object."
"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."
"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."
"Training of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown."
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