Daniel Woodrell
Writer
1953-03-04
Books by Daniel Woodrell
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Winter's Bone
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Under the bright lights
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The death of sweet mister
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Quotes by Daniel Woodrell
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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?
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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.
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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 burped milk'n sh*& yellow.
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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 burped milk'n sh*& yellow.
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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?
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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.
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I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.
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I have a Ford Taurus, and I don't care who knows it.
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I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.
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The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
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Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box.
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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.
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