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" I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders. "
Daniel Woodrell
Orders
Pointless
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" When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly. "
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" I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer. "
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" The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished. "
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" I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars. "
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" 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. "
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" When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves. "
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" I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns. "
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" I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them. "
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" I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories. "
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" I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked. "
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" I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters. "
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Always
" 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.' "
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Book
Doing
" It's called 'The Outlaw Album,' not 'The Ozarks Album.' These are stories that delve into different kinds of outlawry, from criminal acts to interior, or psychological, outlawry. The book is not meant to be a tapestry of the Ozarks. "
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" I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion. "
Daniel Woodrell
Good
Crime
Kind
" It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day. "
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Room
Street
Next
" 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. "
Daniel Woodrell
Story
Time
Feel
" There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there. "
Daniel Woodrell
Sweet
Between
Fiction
" 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
Long
Writing
Direction
" I'm not from the movie world. I'm from the book world. "
Daniel Woodrell
Movie
World
Book
" As a high-school drop-out, I knew I wanted to write, but I wasn't overly confident that I was going to be writing anything serious. I was happy enough with the idea that I could be a penny-a-word guy and survive. "
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Enough
Happy
Serious
" I am well aware that the writers of New York, London, and Toronto are more readily noticed, though the shadowy and potent Ozarks Literary Cabal does what it can for me, then nightly joins me for dinner and calls me 'honey.' "
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Me
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