Top 66 Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

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

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

Daniel Woodrell

I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.

I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.

Daniel Woodrell

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

Daniel Woodrell

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

Daniel Woodrell

There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to jail, drafted. It's never good. So they live by a separate value system.

Daniel Woodrell

My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.

Daniel Woodrell

I don't think I can write a book as nihilistic as some of my early ones. They're so bleak. I don't think I would enjoy that as much anymore. You really become fixated on ways out.

I don't think I can write a book as nihilistic as some of my early ones. They're so bleak. I don't think I would enjoy that as much anymore. You really become fixated on ways out.

Daniel Woodrell

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

Daniel Woodrell

I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.

I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.

Daniel Woodrell

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

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

Daniel Woodrell

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