Katherine Dunn Quotes

In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.

I don't even know what Instagram is, All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.

I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now; I don't want them to be dated.

Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

I keep thinking I should get a phone, because everyone's got one and it becomes increasingly difficult to exist in a society where everyone else has moved ahead and you haven't.

Tech is all about building human connections.

We didn't even have email when I was in college.

Social media is so huge.

I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century.

It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.

Everything is so tech now; everyone is so connected that way.

Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.

Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet.

Everybody is so busy talking about 'Twittering' and talking about the new technologies and talking about this and that, but they don't talk about creativity.

The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.