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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.
- Box
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tell the story by feel most of the time, and I am not much given to labyrinthian digressions but seem to be naturally drawn to compression and pace, and the feelings come about on their own.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not from the movie world. I'm from the book world.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
- Nov 07, 2020
You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.
- Corner
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came back when I'd had a taste of other places and realized that I would never feel the same sense of connection to any place other than the Ozarks.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd just lie around all day. It's the chemo, the poison they pump into you. Sometimes I'd be walking across the room and think, 'There it is; I got to rest.' And I had to, right then.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had bill collectors chasing me. We were skipping from town to town, not leaving forwarding addresses. The agent couldn't find me when he sold my book. He finally found me.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dawn
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's called 'The Outlaw Album,' not 'The Ozarks Album.' These are stories that delve into different kinds of outlawry, from criminal acts to interior, or psychological, outlawry. The book is not meant to be a tapestry of the Ozarks.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a Ford Taurus, and I don't care who knows it.
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I weren't so lazy, I would have 14 books, not eight.
- Fixated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I can write a book as nihilistic as some of my early ones. They're so bleak. I don't think I would enjoy that as much anymore. You really become fixated on ways out.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized there might be monetary or financial reasons to jump in and write a 'Winter's Bone Retriumphs' or something, and nobody would object to me doing that in publishing. But it would be a waste of my time, and they always take a little longer than you thought they would take.
- February
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- Nov 07, 2020
In February of 1972, a snowstorm blew into Kansas City, and I decided to hitchhike to California. The roads were icy, snowflakes howling, and nobody would drive me to the highway, so I humped through the snow and ice and caught a ride with a concerned cop to the Kansas Turnpike.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading newspaper front pages from the 1930s, and I was taken aback. I'm not naive about American history, but I was a bit knocked off my feet by things that used to be on the front pages of newspapers.
- Likes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Criminal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite literate, but was very proud that she attended school as far as the third grade. She worked as a maid, housekeeper and cook.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just because it's got a gun doesn't make it a crime novel, and just because there's a horse doesn't make it a western.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know people who have, until recently, lived with dirt floors. There are people who live way back off the grid, without electricity. Not a whole lot, but quite a few. That's a choice for a lot of them. There might be a religious element in their isolation, at least with some of them.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020