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
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.
learned life object polite poor
I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.
fascinated life
I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
due guess longer rounded writers
I remember all the writers I started with who I was embarrassed to be around - they were so much better than me. A lot of them are no longer writing. I guess they were better rounded and had other options. Due to social discomfort, I only had the one road.
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I am well aware that the writers of New York, London, and Toronto are more readily noticed, though the shadowy and potent Ozarks Literary Cabal does what it can for me, then nightly joins me for dinner and calls me 'honey.'
keeps time whether
This happens to me all the time: I think I'm working on one thing, but this other thing, whether I want it to or not, keeps coming through.
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.
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.
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.
pits world born
I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.
full romantic
I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.
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.
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.