Daniel Woodrell Quotes
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We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.
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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 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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I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.
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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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For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.
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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'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.
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I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.
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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 liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.
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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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I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their own.
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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 realized there might be monetary or financial reasons to jump in and write a 'Winter's Bone Retriumphs' or something, and nobody would object to me doing that in publishing. But it would be a waste of my time, and they always take a little longer than you thought they would take.
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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.
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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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As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was going to be writing anything serious. I was happy enough with the idea that I could be a penny-a-word guy and survive.
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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 don't think I can write a book as nihilistic as some of my early ones. They're so bleak. I don't think I would enjoy that as much anymore. You really become fixated on ways out.
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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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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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I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.
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If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.