“ I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer. Daniel Woodrell
“ I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality. Daniel Woodrell
“ I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now. Daniel Woodrell
“ The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far… Daniel Woodrell
“ Ree Dolly stood at the break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat. Meat hung from trees across the creek. Carcasses hung pale of flesh with fatty gleam from low limb… Daniel Woodrell
“ 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 g… Daniel Woodrell
“ I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits. Daniel Woodrell
“ Nobody cares for getting belittled by a person you’ve had sex with. A person you’ve licked all over. Nobody wants to sit there and get run down too far by somebody who gives them a hard-on. Daniel Woodrell
“ I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different. Daniel Woodrell
“ I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol. Daniel Woodrell
“ Sammy, wouldn’t you like to add up to something? In the future? Amount to something?”“Naw. I just figure to roll on, stackin’ days, you know, till the day I fuck up big enough the future gets canceled… Daniel Woodrell
“ You wake up in this here world, my sweet li'l mister, you got to wake up tough. You go out that front door tough of a mornin' and you stay tough 'til lights out—have you learned that? Daniel Woodrell
“ The Dolly's around here can't be seen to coddle a snitch's family --- that's the always been our way. We're old blood, us people, and our ways was set firm long before hot shot baby Jesus ever even bu… Daniel Woodrell
