140 Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

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

We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine.

Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box.

The town of St. Charles near St. Louis was founded by a trapper named Blanchette. There is a section that's called Frenchtown on historical markers.

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

I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.

This happens to me all the time: I think I'm working on one thing, but this other thing, whether I want it to or not, keeps coming through.