Daniel Woodrell quotes
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“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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“Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.”
-- Daniel WoodrellSource : Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.8, Hachette UK
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“The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.”
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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.”
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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 WoodrellSource : Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.25, Hachette UK
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“I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.”
-- Daniel WoodrellSource : Daniel Woodrell (1999). “Ride with the Devil”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
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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.”
-- Daniel WoodrellSource : Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.32, Hachette UK
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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 WoodrellSource : "Winter's Bone". Book by Daniel Woodrell, 2006.
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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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“The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.”
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“There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.”
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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 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.”
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“I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.”
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“A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.”
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“I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.”
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“I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.”
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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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“Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.”
-- Daniel WoodrellSource : Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.132, Hachette UK
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“You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.”
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“This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.”
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“I said shut up once already, with my mouth.”
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“Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.”
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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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“It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.”
-- Daniel WoodrellSource : "Chest Deep in Southern Literature: A Conversation with Daniel Woodrell". Interview with Brendan Dowling, publiclibrariesonline.org. May 20, 2013.
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“But 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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“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 WoodrellSource : Daniel Woodrell (2012). “Winter's Bone”, p.32, Hachette UK
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