Daniel Woodrell Quotes

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

I wanted to be a barrister for a long time.

I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.

I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that Appalachian soul.

Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure.

All my father's stories were about our mountain, our valley, our jagged little patch of Idaho.

I have been in Los Angeles for a long time, and I have wanted to be a series lead for a long time. It's literally on my bucket list.

I think it's a cool thing to have kids look up to me and to know that it doesn't matter, your background or your ethnic background. If you have goals and dreams, you can achieve them. I am extremely proud to be Tongan and Samoan, and to be the first on Tour and the first in the Masters is a cool thing.

For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, 'Quicksand' and 'Passing,' and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964.

Any kind of idea of fame - that has been shelved.

I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am.

In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.

I had this dream for a long time and it was a dream to play for Chelsea and not for another club.

Sometimes people have to remind you to aim high. Most of us are afraid of aiming high for fear of failure and our biggest failure is that we aim too low.

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

Aha! Today I shall become an author! And I will auth and auth and auth and make a squillion dollars, whoopee!