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
book writing long
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
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.
dream heart ideas
The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
ought asks
Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.
chance ready ready-to-die
You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.
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.
fixated ways
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.
across poison pump room
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.
gravitate love people relate towards writers
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.
My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.
alienated expect given good interact mainstream parallel people sent separate square time trouble value
There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.
people strictly
One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves.
charles founded near section town
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.
four
I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.