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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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