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Daniel Woodrell Biography

Daniel Woodrell (born March 4, 1953) is an American novelist and short story writer, who has written nine novels, most of them set in the Missouri Ozarks, and one collection of short stories. Woodrell coined the phrase "country noir" to describe his 1996 novel Give Us a Kiss. Reviewers have frequently since used the term to categorize his writing.

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I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.

Bone, People, Three, Town, Winter

Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

Dark, Let, Long, Lovely, Parts

I, myself, often wished to be spared the expectation of better days ahead or such.

Ahead, Better Days, Days, Expectation, Expectations, Wished

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

Book, Long, Three, Writing

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

Ask, Asks, Offered, Ought

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

Born, Pits, World

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

Fresh, Snow, Spread, Stronger, Tree, Vault

When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.

Boring, Risk, Run, Running

I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.

Felt, Number, Numbers, Things, Writer

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.

Book, Hear, Ozarks, Short, Thinking

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Clean, Fading, Light, Nightfall, Shadow, Shadows

When I left Iowa, I definitely never wanted to stand in front of a group of academics again and see if they approved of me. I made up my mind to take my work to the actual reading public.

Group, Iowa, Left, Mind, Reading

I'm not one of these people who thinks everyone born into privilege should wear sack cloth and ashes. But it's something I wrestle with. I know a lot of people who live below the poverty level and have for a long time and it makes them uneasy to think they'll have to interact with people from different economic levels. Everyone has some sort of load put on them, whatever the circumstances they're born into.

Economic, Interact, Level, Long, People, Thinking

There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

Fiction, Overlap, Realist, Sweet

A person has to show some spirit -- fate just about never shines on chickenshits.

Chickenshits, Fate, Person, Shine On, Shining, Show

Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in a while and a nosebleed or bruised breast might result. But it just seemed proof that a great foulness was afoot in the world when a no-strings roll in the hay with a stranger led to chipped teeth or cigarette burns on the wrist.

Bruised, Confused, Folk, Hands, Hate

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

Dream, Heart, Ideas, Like

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

Different, Except, Mother, Used

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

Already, Mouth, Mouths, Said, Shut Up

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

Bayou, Firsts, Novel, Trilogies, Trilogy

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