Donald Ray Pollock famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Some people were born just so they could be buried.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#People #Buried #Born
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 Pollock

#Running #Morning #Father
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.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#Believe #Agony #Life Is
When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#School #Fifty #Quitting
I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#Writing #Character
I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#Miserable #Bigs #Reader
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 Pollock

#Ohio #Years #Shoes
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.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#Book #Writing #Would Be
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.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#Crime #Prophet #Novel
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.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#Zombie #Age #Stories
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.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#Blessed #Way #Months
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.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#Girl #Flower #Hair
A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.
-- Donald Ray Pollock

#Thinking #People #Hitting Bottom
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

#Character #Ohio #Names

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