Daniel Woodrell
Daniel Woodrell
Daniel Woodrellis an American writer of fiction. He has written eight novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks. Woodrell coined the phrase "country noir" to describe his 1996 novel Give Us a Kiss. Reviewers have frequently since used the term to categorize his writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 March 1953
CountryUnited States of America
forever happened
This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.
winter people towns
I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.
firsts trilogies bayou
The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
sweet fiction realist
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
running risk boring
When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.
book thinking ozarks
I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.
expectations better-days
I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.
fate shine-on shining
A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.
mother different used
I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.
mouths shut-up said
I said shut up once already, with my mouth.
reading iowa mind
When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.
light shadow fading
Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.
baby hurt sadness
Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot.
book writing long
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.