Quotes by Daniel Woodrell - Page 2

The town of St. Charles near St. Louis was founded by a trapper named Blanchette. There is a section that's called Frenchtown on historical markers.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Markers
Louis
Named
Charles
Near
Section
St. Louis
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I came back when I'd had a taste of other places and realized that I would never feel the same sense of connection to any place other than the Ozarks.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Taste
Connection
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I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Book
Ozarks
Thinking
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I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Pipeline
Scream
Collection
Agent
Short Stories
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I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Graves
Newspapers
Notable
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If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Health
Benefits
Book
Health Benefits
Pension
Turns
Allow
Chances
Plan
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He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.'
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Chance
Ready
Ready To Die
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I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Chasing
Collectors
Leaving
Agent
Skipping
Sold
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I don't think I can write a book as nihilistic as some of my early ones. They're so bleak. I don't think I would enjoy that as much anymore. You really become fixated on ways out.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Bleak
Fixated
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For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Ambition
Conscious
Long Time
Obscure
Time Long Live
Recipe
Region
Seemed
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I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Poison
All Day
Pump
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Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Eye
Skins
Wind
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When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Iowa
Mind
Reading
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I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Wealth
Life Long Better
Beholden
Object
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I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Missouri
Louis
Charles
Till
Plains
River
St. Louis
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I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their own.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Compression
Pace
Time I Am Feel
Naturally
Drawn
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I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Circumstances
Ireland
Lit
Relate
Love Always People
Writers
Love People Always
Gravitate
Towards
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One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Interesting Things
Indiscriminate
Strictly
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I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
American History
Newspapers
Pages
Newspaper
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As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was going to be writing anything serious. I was happy enough with the idea that I could be a penny-a-word guy and survive.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Confident
Drop-Out
Overly
Survive
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Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Baby
Hurt
Sadness
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We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Arkansas
Inexpensive
Missouri
Moved
San Francisco
Corner
Francisco
Wonders
Pine
San
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I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Crime Fiction
Insistence
Narrative
Notion
Muscle
Principle
Punch
Root
Underlying
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I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Attended
Cook
Grade
Housekeeper
Literate
Maid
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I am well aware that the writers of New York, London, and Toronto are more readily noticed, though the shadowy and potent Ozarks Literary Cabal does what it can for me, then nightly joins me for dinner and calls me 'honey.'
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Dinner
Honey
Toronto
Calls
Me I Am New
Literary
Nightly
Noticed
Potent
Readily
Shadowy
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It's called 'The Outlaw Album,' not 'The Ozarks Album.' These are stories that delve into different kinds of outlawry, from criminal acts to interior, or psychological, outlawry. The book is not meant to be a tapestry of the Ozarks.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Book
Different Kinds
Meant To Be
Outlaw
Psychological
Stories
Tapestry
Acts
Album
Meant
Criminal
Interior
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I remember all the writers I started with who I was embarrassed to be around - they were so much better than me. A lot of them are no longer writing. I guess they were better rounded and had other options. Due to social discomfort, I only had the one road.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Discomfort
Embarrassed
Better Me Remember
Due
Me Remember Better
Options
Rounded
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I'm surviving and developing as a writer. I don't know what brings you to mass attention in terms of sales. But I've gotten more and more comfortable with it. Of course if that changes, I'll be comfortable with that. All I can do is write the best books I can.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Developing
Mass
Surviving
Brings
More And More
Sales
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For a long time, I thought you could remain isolated and survive, and I didn't want to change that. But over the last three or four books, I've become more comfortable with the idea that I'm not really throwing anything away by being a bit more open about my books and life.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Book
Long
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In February of 1972, a snowstorm blew into Kansas City, and I decided to hitchhike to California. The roads were icy, snowflakes howling, and nobody would drive me to the highway, so I humped through the snow and ice and caught a ride with a concerned cop to the Kansas Turnpike.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
California
Caught
Cop
February
Ice
Snow
Blew
City Me Drive
Highway
Howling
Ride
Roads
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I realized there might be monetary or financial reasons to jump in and write a 'Winter's Bone Retriumphs' or something, and nobody would object to me doing that in publishing. But it would be a waste of my time, and they always take a little longer than you thought they would take.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Monetary
My Time
Publishing
Waste
Winter
Time Always Me
Bone
Time Me Nobody
Jump
Object
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I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back off the grid, without electricity. Not a whole lot, but quite a few. That's a choice for a lot of them. There might be a religious element in their isolation, at least with some of them.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Dirt
Electricity
Isolation
Element
Floors
People Way Live
Grid
Recently
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There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
American Culture
Jail
Mainstream
Alienated
Time Good Culture
Drafted
Interact
Parallel
Square
Ticket
Value System
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Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in a while and a nosebleed or bruised breast might result. But it just seemed proof that a great foulness was afoot in the world when a no-strings roll in the hay with a stranger led to chipped teeth or cigarette burns on the wrist.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Confused
Hands
Hate
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I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.
Daniel Woodrell / Writer
Long
People
Thinking
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