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I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.

~Daniel Woodrell

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Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: Humor Pretty Similar Southern Texas

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I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

~Daniel Woodrell

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Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.

~Daniel Woodrell

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I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: As Far As Attended Becoming Cook Far Grade Grandmother Literate Maid Most Proud Quite Responsible School She Think Third Very Worked Writer I Think

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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.

~Daniel Woodrell

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I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.

~Daniel Woodrell

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I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back off the grid, without electricity. Not a whole lot, but quite a few. That's a choice for a lot of them. There might be a religious element in their isolation, at least with some of them.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: Back Choice Dirt Electricity Element Few Floors Grid Isolation Know Least Live Lived Lot Might Off People Quite Recently Religious Some Them Until Way Who Whole Without

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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.

~Daniel Woodrell

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I'm surviving and developing as a writer. I don't know what brings you to mass attention in terms of sales. But I've gotten more and more comfortable with it. Of course if that changes, I'll be comfortable with that. All I can do is write the best books I can.

~Daniel Woodrell

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 4th, 1953

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