Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

About Daniel Woodrell:

Daniel Woodrell is an American writer of fiction. He has written eight novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks. Woodrell coined the phrase "country noir" to describe his 1996 novel Give Us a Kiss. Reviewers have frequently since used the term to categorize his writing.
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The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin’ wide in the turns.

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I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

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I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

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Sammy, wouldn’t you like to add up to something? In the future? Amount to something?” “Naw. I just figure to roll on, stackin’ days, you know, till the day I fuck up big enough the future gets canceled. Or else all planned out for me, maybe. ...

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Nobody cares for getting belittled by a person you’ve had sex with. A person you’ve licked all over. Nobody wants to sit there and get run down too far by somebody who gives them a hard-on.

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I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won’t say I rested.

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I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol.

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This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

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He was almost twenty and Ree knew most girls would call him handsome or dreamy or some such. Sandy hair, blue eyes, put together strong, with bright teeth and one of those smiles.

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The Dolly's around here can't be seen to coddle a snitch's family --- that's the always been our way. We're old blood, us people, and our ways was set firm long before hot shot baby Jesus ever even burped milk'n sh*& yellow.

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Moons of ache glowed in spaces of her meat and when she moved the moons banged together and stunned.

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Ree Dolly stood at the break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat. Meat hung from trees across the creek. Carcasses hung pale of flesh with fatty gleam from low limbs of saplings in the side yards. Three halt haggar...

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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.

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I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

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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've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

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There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

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The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

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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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I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

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Author Bio

  • NameDaniel Woodrell
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornMarch 4, 1953
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist