{"author":"Daniel Woodrell","author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.","author":"Daniel Woodrell","tags":["texas","southern","pretty "],"id":46242,"author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell"},{"text":"Sammy, wouldn’t you like to add up to something? In the future? Amount to something?”“Naw. I just figure to roll on, stackin’ days, you know, till the day I fuck up big enough the future gets canceled. Or else all planned out for me, maybe. There’s a somewhat likely chance of that.”“Man, Sammy, I can’t live thinking that way'Well,I don't think about it.","author":"Daniel Woodrell","tags":["amounting-to-something","future","planning"],"id":56205,"author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell"},{"text":"I guess it's ridiculously romantic, but I wanted to be a full tilt, sink-or-swim writer.","author":"Daniel Woodrell","tags":["writer","guess","ridiculously "],"id":112578,"author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell"},{"text":"I slept for over a full day, as you know, but I won’t say I rested.","author":"Daniel Woodrell","tags":["rest","sleep"],"id":141455,"author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell"},{"text":"I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.","author":"Daniel Woodrell","tags":["depression","hillbilly-noir","self-knowledge"],"id":175587,"author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell"},{"text":"I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.","author":"Daniel Woodrell","tags":["civil-war","coming-of-age","western"],"id":200472,"author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell"},{"text":"Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she'd overnight become glued to her spot.","author":"Daniel Woodrell","tags":["baby","poverty","teen-mother"],"id":208494,"author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell"},{"text":"I think all regions have had their peculiarities of speech rounded off by television, radio, and people travel so much more now.","author":"Daniel Woodrell","tags":["people","television","think "],"id":209495,"author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell"},{"text":"I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol.","author":"Daniel Woodrell","tags":["cop","god","sleep"],"id":240912,"author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell"},{"text":"Ree Dolly stood at the break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat. Meat hung from trees across the creek. Carcasses hung pale of flesh with fatty gleam from low limbs of saplings in the side yards. Three halt haggard houses formed a kneeling rank on the far creekside and each had two or more skinned torsos dangling by rope from sagged limbs, venison left to the weather for two nights and three days so the early blossoming of decay might round the flavor, sweeten that meat to the bone.","author":"Daniel Woodrell","tags":["meat","ozarks","poverty","venison","winter"],"id":246238,"author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}