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

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

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

I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories..

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….

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

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks redden….

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

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

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

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

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

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars..

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

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 ….

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered..

For a long time, I thought you could remain isolated and survive, and I didn't want to change that. But over the last three or four books, I've becom….

Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spin….

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

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

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained..