Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

Daniel Woodrell

A person has to show some spirit — fate just about never shines on chickenshits.

Fate

Shine On

Shining

But I’ve been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

Book

Long

Writing

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Fading

Light

Shadow

For a long time, I thought you could remain isolated and survive, and I didn’t want to change that. But over the last three or four books, I’ve become more comfortable with the idea that I’m not really throwing anything away by being a bit more open about my books and life.

Book

Long

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.

Baby

Hurt

Sadness

He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, ‘You got to be ready to die every day – then you got a chance.’

Chance

Ready

Ready To Die

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

Kind

Stories

Vivacity

I didn’t really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

Oscars

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

Felt

Numbers

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

Born

Pits

World

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Boring

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Different

Dream

Expectations

Eye

Fading

Fate

Felt

Fiction

Firsts

Forever

Hands

Happened

Hate

Heart

Hurt

Ideas

Iowa

Kind

Light

Long

Lovely

Mind

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Mouths

Numbers

Oscars

Ought

Ozarks

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Pits

Reading

Ready

Ready To Die

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Risk

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Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

Daniel Woodrell

A person has to show some spirit — fate just about never shines on chickenshits.

But I’ve been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

For a long time, I thought you could remain isolated and survive, and I didn’t want to change that. But over the last three or four books, I’ve become more comfortable with the idea that I’m not really throwing anything away by being a bit more open about my books and life.

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.

He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, ‘You got to be ready to die every day – then you got a chance.’

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

I didn’t really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

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