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Nobody really turns out too happy in any of my stuff. It's really strange, because I'm actually a pretty happy person. I'm not walking around giggling or anything like that, but I've got this feeling that everything is okay with my life.

~Donald Ray Pollock

Topics: Actually Any Anything Around Because Everything Feeling Got Happy Happy Person Life Like My Life Nobody Okay Out Person Pretty Really Strange Stuff Too Turns Walking

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Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it lust or necessity or just plain ignorance.

~Donald Ray Pollock

Topics: Another Blood Calamity Connected Four Hundred Ignorance Just Lived Lust Nearly Necessity People Plain Them Through

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I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.

~Donald Ray Pollock

Topics: Always Bad Big Even Everything Miserable Reader

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I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.

~Donald Ray Pollock

Topics: Cerebral Ever Going Guy Least Meet Writer You

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I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

~Donald Ray Pollock

Topics: Book Come Just Like Off Talent Think Violent Weird Would Write I Can

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I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

~Donald Ray Pollock

Topics: Always Been Big Books Get Great Great Way Loved Reader Thought Way World Would Writing

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If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw it away and do another one.

~Donald Ray Pollock

Topics: Another Around Away Carry Long Me Notes Out Overly Story Then Throw Type Week

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I would try to write my own story about some East Coast suburbanite having an affair or something like that. So I did that for maybe two years or so, and it just wasn't working for me at all.

~Donald Ray Pollock

Topics: About Affair Coast Did East East Coast Having Just Like Maybe Me My Own Own Some Something Story Try Two Working Would Write Years

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I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.

~Donald Ray Pollock

Topics: After Classes Decided Degree Going Got How Kept Learn Mill Ohio Short Short Stories Started Stories Taking Try University Working Write

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When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable around people.

~Donald Ray Pollock

Topics: Always Around Else Felt Growing Growing Up Little Live People Somebody Somewhere Somewhere Else Uncomfortable Up Wanted

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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