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.
From Daniel Woodrell
I've bumped into at least three people in town who all insist 'Winter's Bone' is about them.
I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.
When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you.
I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.
I felt like a number of things in me as a writer just clicked.
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.'
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
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