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I'm not from the movie world. I'm from the book world.
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I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.
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He was a man with a tin-ear present who dreamed of a rock-opera future.
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This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.
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Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.
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Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.
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I have a Ford Taurus, and I don't care who knows it.
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I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
— Daniel Woodrell
Babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not.
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I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.
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Her right hand held a bottle of Pepsi that she'd clogged with peanuts and called a late lunch.
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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.
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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.
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I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things.
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I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.
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Can't none of this be new to you.
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I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.
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The bodies draped down through the leaves like rancid baubles in the locks of a horrible harlot.
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If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.
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The pain was shrill enough, but the idea of a finger of mine twitching about, lost in chicken-pecked dust, was more terrible.
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Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
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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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There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
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Honesty can siphon off a few regrets and resentments if you tap in to it. Let that sink in.
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I hate to fall back on weird to describe them, but goofy is too weak, and strange sounds too sensible.
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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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She dressed to cast her daughter in a frumpy light.
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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.
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Grunt work is my main calling, but I like to be dead when I do it.
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I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.
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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.
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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.
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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, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.
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So much death and no coffee to be had.
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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 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?
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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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You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.
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I pulled the rearview down and looked at myself in the mirror for a spell, trying to spot virtues.
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I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
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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.
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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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The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
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Stained raincoats, I reckon." "And shitpaper stuck to their shoes.
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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 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.
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I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.
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A person has to show some spirit
fate just about never shines kindly on chickenshits. — Daniel Woodrell
fate just about never shines kindly on chickenshits. — Daniel Woodrell
It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.
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I'd get lost without the weight of you two on my shoulders.
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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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I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.
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The World Ain't No Day-care Center.
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I said shut up once already, with my mouth.
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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.
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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.
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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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My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.
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No god craves weaklings.
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Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.
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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.
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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.
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I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.
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You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.
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