Daniel Woodrell Quotes

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• Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.
• I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.
• It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.
• 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…
• But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
• 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've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.
• The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
• There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
• When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.
• I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of…
• Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.
• Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening…
• Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.
• The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
• Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in…
• Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.
• The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

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