140 Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.

I love Shakespeare and the Greeks - learned a lot studying them at one time.

I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.

I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.

I'm not from the movie world. I'm from the book world.

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