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.
Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could. - Daniel Woodrell
Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.
- Daniel Woodrell
Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall. - Daniel Woodrell
Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.
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… - Daniel Woodrell
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…
The heart makes dreams seem like ideas. - Daniel Woodrell
The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
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… - Daniel Woodrell
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…
Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered. - Daniel Woodrell
Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.
This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever. - Daniel Woodrell
This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.
It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained. - Daniel Woodrell
It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.
He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day -… - Daniel Woodrell
He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day -…
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