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
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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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In February of 1972, a snowstorm blew into Kansas City, and I decided to hitchhike to California. The roads were icy, snowflakes howling, and nobody would drive me to the highway, so I humped through the snow and ice and caught a ride with a concerned cop to the Kansas Turnpike.
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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 liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.
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I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.
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I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.
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I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.
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I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.
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I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.
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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.