Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.
Katherine DunnI 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 DunnThere are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.
Katherine DunnIt is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.
Katherine DunnTraining of female athletes is so new that the limits of female possibility are still unknown.
Katherine Dunn