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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.

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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.

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

Earned a bachelor's at 27, then an M.F.A. that is still completely unused and in mint condition, never taken out of the box.

I am well aware that the writers of New York, London, and Toronto are more readily noticed, though the shadowy and potent Ozarks Literary Cabal does what it can for me, then nightly joins me for dinner and calls me...

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.

One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves.

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 liked my fellow Marines. I didn't like pointless orders.

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

There are people so alienated from the mainstream of American culture that it's like a parallel universe. They don't expect anything but trouble from the square world. Every time they interact with that world, they're given a ticket, sent to...

I'm not from the movie world. I'm from the book world.

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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