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I'm not from the movie world. I'm from the book world.

I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.

He was a man with a tin-ear present who dreamed of a rock-opera future.

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

I have a Ford Taurus, and I don't care who knows it.

I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.

I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before.

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.

I ain't shit! I ain't shit! shouts your brain, and this place proves the point.

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.

Babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not.

I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.

Her right hand held a bottle of Pepsi that she'd clogged with peanuts and called a late lunch.

Thump Milton loomed over Ree, a fabled man, his face a monument of Ozark stone, with juts and angles and cold shaded parts the sun never touched.

Tip began to nod, then shook his head. I could be eight kinds of crooked, there, piglet, but I ain't never been no kind of dumb.

I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things.

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

Can't none of this be new to you.

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

The bodies draped down through the leaves like rancid baubles in the locks of a horrible harlot.

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

The pain was shrill enough, but the idea of a finger of mine twitching about, lost in chicken-pecked dust, was more terrible.

Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.

Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

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

Honesty can siphon off a few regrets and resentments if you tap in to it. Let that sink in.

I hate to fall back on weird to describe them, but goofy is too weak, and strange sounds too sensible.

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

She dressed to cast her daughter in a frumpy light.

I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11.

Grunt work is my main calling, but I like to be dead when I do it.

I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.

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.

It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.

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

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

So much death and no coffee to be had.

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

I can't say that dropping out of school at 16 to join the Marines was my best idea. On the other hand, maybe it was. Who knows?

He's got that 'born to lose and lose violently' air about him. That's good.

You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'

You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.

I pulled the rearview down and looked at myself in the mirror for a spell, trying to spot virtues.

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.

I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.

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

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

Stained raincoats, I reckon." "And shitpaper stuck to their shoes.

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

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.

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

A person has to show some spirit
fate just about never shines kindly on chickenshits.

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.

When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

I'd get lost without the weight of you two on my shoulders.

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

The World Ain't No Day-care Center.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

She would never cry where her tears might be seen and counted against her.

I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

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

My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

No god craves weaklings.

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

You know, I'm very near to bein' normal, but I just can't get over the hump.

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

This happens to me all the time: I think I'm working on one thing, but this other thing, whether I want it to or not, keeps coming through.

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.

I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.