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
people regions rounded travel
I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.
winter people towns
I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.
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.
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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.
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.
choice dirt element lived might people quite religious until
I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back off the grid, without electricity. Not a whole lot, but quite a few. That's a choice for a lot of them. There might be a religious element in their isolation, at least with some of them.
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I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.
drawn given naturally time
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.
attracted fit likes notion poetry
I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.
life met socialize
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.
basically families happened several stuff
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.
positive
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.
greeks learned love shakespeare time
I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.
fellow liked
I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.