Quotes by : Daniel Woodrell

I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems....

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won’t say I rested.

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

No god craves weaklings.

I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as....

Sammy, wouldn’t you like to add up to something? In the future? Amount to something?”“Naw. I just....

The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t....

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

Ree Dolly stood at the break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat.....