Daniel Woodrell

We'd been living in the Arkansas Ozarks, then the Missouri Ozarks, because it is so inexpensive and does have natural wonders, but we shuffled things and moved to San Francisco, the corner of Dashiell Hammett and Pine. ”

I rise near dawn, make a strong cup of coffee, wander to my desk and come fully awake by reading something written the day before. ”

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar. ”

I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality. ”

I am well aware that the writers of New York, London, and Toronto are more readily noticed, though the shadowy and potent Ozarks Literary Cabal does what it can for me, then nightly joins me for dinner and calls me 'honey.' ”

You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.' ”

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.' ”

I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers. ”

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive. ”

I remember all the writers I started with who I was embarrassed to be around - they were so much better than me. A lot of them are no longer writing. I guess they were better rounded and had other options. Due to social discomfort, I only had the one road. ”