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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

Topics: About Am Come Drawn Feel Feelings Given Most Much Naturally Own Pace Seem Story Tell Time I Am

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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.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: About Between Crime Each Indiscriminate Interesting Interesting Things Just Kind Know Other People Really Street Strictly Themselves Things Who You

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I liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: Fellow Like Liked Marines Orders Pointless

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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

Topics: Always Crime Crime Fiction Democracy Fiction Good Insistence Just Kind Like Muscle Narrative Notion Principle Punch Really Root Underlying

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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.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: Alienated American American Culture Anything Culture Drafted Every Every Time Expect Given Good Interact Jail Like Live Mainstream Never Parallel People Sent Separate Square System Ticket Time Trouble Universe Value Value System World

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I'm not from the movie world. I'm from the book world.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: Book Movie World

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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

Topics: Been Books Direction Enough Every Four Know Long New New Direction Now Start Three Writing

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You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: About Agent Collection Doing Hear Say Scream Set Short Short Stories Stories Thinking Want You

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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.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: Charles Founded Historical Louis Named Near Section St. Louis Town

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For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: About Ambition Conscious Live Long Long Time Obscure Obscurity Recipe Region Seemed Sure Think Time Wanted Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 4th, 1953

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