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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 ...”

    • Katherine Dunn,
    • in Susan Cahill, ed., Growing Up Female ()

  • “Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.”

  • “Suddenly the staggering love bursts away from me like milk from a smashed glass.”

Katherine Dunn, U.S. writer, journalist, voice artist, poet

(1945)

Full name: Katherine Karen Dunn.