Quotes by : Daniel Woodrell

I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

No god craves weaklings.

Nobody cares for getting belittled by a person you’ve had sex with. A person you’ve licked all over.....

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

When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.

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

You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front....

I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people....

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