Daniel Woodrell Quotes

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.

When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had read other science fiction by noted authors, but this book was something else altogether.

Browsing the first editions at my local independent bookstore, I came across 'Pastoralia,' a collection of stories by George Saunders. I'd read one of the stories in it already, and several other Saunders stories in magazines and anthologies, and liked them all.

Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

In a book, you can kind of take time and have lulls in places.

A Boosh fan bought me an original copy of 'The Jungle Book' - like, the first print from 1894 - so I've just started re-reading that and am really enjoying it. But the last book I read in its entirety was 'Willard and his Bowling Trophies,' by Richard Brautigan, which is amazing.

My favorite book growing up was 'The Little Prince.'

I honestly believe there is absolutely nothing like going to bed with a good #book; or a friend who's #read one.

There is no frigate like a book

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

I must have been about 11 when I read the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, which I read, over and over again.

I first read War And Peace about 100 years after Tolstoy wrote it.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.

I read "The Group" by Mary McCarthy. It had tons of sex in it, or so I thought at the time.

I doubt if I shall ever have time to read the book again -- there are too many new ones coming out all the time which I want to read. Yet an old book has something for me which no new book can ever have -- for at every reading the memories and atmosphere of other readings come back and I am reading old years as well as an old book.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.