Donald Ray Pollock quotes
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“Some people were born just so they could be buried.”
-- Donald Ray PollockSource : Donald Ray Pollock (2011). “The Devil All the Time”, p.66, Random House
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“Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.”
-- Donald Ray PollockSource : "Donald Ray Pollock On Finding Fiction Late In Life". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 26, 2011.
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“I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.”
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“When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.”
-- Donald Ray PollockSource : "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.
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“I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.”
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“I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.”
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“I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.”
-- Donald Ray PollockSource : "An Open Letter to Joe the Plumber from Don the Factory Worker" by Donald Ray Pollock, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2008.
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“Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.”
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“Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life.”
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“J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.”
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“The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.”
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“Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car.”
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“A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.”
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“Knockemstiff is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried to link the stories together through the place and some recurring characters.”
-- Donald Ray Pollock
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