Daniel Woodrell Quotes

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.

Daniel Woodrell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 4, 1953

Topics

TimeI AmStoryFeelFeelingsTell

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

Jesse Kellerman

GoodTimeBeginningEndResolution

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

John Hull

ResearchThingsFactExchangeOur

When one teaches, two learn.

Robert Half

BrainyLearnTwoTeaches

The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.

Jean-Luc Godard

MusicPeopleAirplanePresentMore

I wouldn't have had the life I've had without movies.

Michael Cimino

LifeMoviesWithoutHad

I was always into things like Boyz II Men and boy bands, and then I got into Radiohead and alt-rock.

St. Lucia

MenBoyAlwaysThingsGotLike

I just wanted to have a private life.

Sia

LifePrivate LifeJustWanted

That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.

Tom Hanks

HopePeopleI CanDoneNiceKind

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

Marya Mannes

IntelligencePeopleControlEmotions

I can drink 15 pieces of fruit in a day. Nobody is going to sit down and eat that. I drink about 48 ounces a day. That constitutes about 50 percent of what I eat. And then I have one meal a day, some protein. I restrict calories.

Montel Williams

DayFruitDownI CanNobodyDrink

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

Dennis Quaid

StoryPictureYouBe TrueKnowTrue

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

Davy Jones

PeopleReadingRetirementInternet

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