American - Writer | March 4, 1953 -
My father was a salesman, and I always said I wouldn't be one.
Daniel Woodrell
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I was basically raised to look for chances to get even with several families for stuff that happened 30 or 40 years before I was born.
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I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things.
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I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11.
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I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.
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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.
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