Top 66 Quotes by Daniel Woodrell

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

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.

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

I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.

I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11.

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

I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.

I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.