Daniel Woodrell famous quotes

03-25-2025

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

#Dark #Long #Lovely
Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.
-- Daniel Woodrell
The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Dream #Heart #Ideas
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.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Reading #Iowa #Mind
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 Woodrell

#Baby #Hurt #Sadness
I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Mother #Different #Used
The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Dream #Heart #Ideas
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 Woodrell

#Eye #Wind #Skins
I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Winter #People #Three
The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Firsts #Trilogies #Bayou
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Sweet #Fiction #Realist
When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Running #Risk #Boring
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.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Book #Thinking #Stories
I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Expectations #Better Days
A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Fate #Shining #Spirit
I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Numbers
I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.
-- Daniel Woodrell

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

#Stories #Kind #Vivacity
Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Light #Shadow #Fading
You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Chance #Ready
This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Forever
I said shut up once already, with my mouth.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Mouths #Shut Up #Said
Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Snow #Tree #Stronger
I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.
-- Daniel Woodrell

#Pits #World #Born
It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.
-- Daniel Woodrell

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

#Book #Writing #Long
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 Woodrell

#Hate #Confused #Hands

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