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
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.
dark long mind
Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.
bone financial jump longer might monetary nobody object realized reasons time waste
I realized there might be monetary or financial reasons to jump in and write a 'Winter's Bone Retriumphs' or something, and nobody would object to me doing that in publishing. But it would be a waste of my time, and they always take a little longer than you thought they would take.
due guess longer rounded writers
I remember all the writers I started with who I was embarrassed to be around - they were so much better than me. A lot of them are no longer writing. I guess they were better rounded and had other options. Due to social discomfort, I only had the one road.
four
I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
earned taken unused
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.
fascinated life
I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
humor
Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.
charles founded near section town
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.
bit feet front history knocked naive pages taken
I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.
characters criminal towards
Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
family notable records
I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.
drawn given naturally time
I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their own.
Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.