Daniel Woodrell
Daniel Woodrell
Daniel Woodrellis an American writer of fiction. He has written eight novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks. Woodrell coined the phrase "country noir" to describe his 1996 novel Give Us a Kiss. Reviewers have frequently since used the term to categorize his writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 March 1953
CountryUnited States of America
masters
I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.
confident guy knew overly
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.
full romantic
I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.
characters criminal towards
Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
family notable records
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.
arkansas corner missouri moved san
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.
admire money poetry
When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.
numbers felt
I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.
hate confused hands
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.
pits world born
I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.
stories benefits
It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.
dream heart ideas
The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
eye wind skins
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.
stories kind vivacity
I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.