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
admire money poetry
When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.
dark long mind
Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.
ought asks
Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.
dream heart ideas
The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
snow tree stronger
Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.
reading iowa mind
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.
firsts trilogies bayou
The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
numbers felt
I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.
oscars
I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.
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.
stories benefits
It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.
baby hurt sadness
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.
pits world born
I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.
dream heart ideas
The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.