Daniel Woodrell quotes

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars. (Daniel Woodrell)
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
Daniel Woodrell
Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.
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The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
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Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.
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This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.
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I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.
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I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.
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I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.
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When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.
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Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box. (Daniel Woodrell)
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.
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The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
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I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.
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You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
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The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
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I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
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