Quotes by : Daniel Woodrell

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

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.

The Dolly's around here can't be seen to coddle a snitch's family --- that's the always been our way.....

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....

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 was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

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