Donald Ray Pollock Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I'm trying to break myself of that habit [of not writing out a first draft ] because I'm working on a couple novels and I know if I tried to write those books the way I wrote the stories it would take me years to finish.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Couple, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

• The way I saw the characters these things just happened naturally. At the same time - and I know it's probably not apparent when you read the book - but I really tried to hold back because I didn't want it to become a cartoon.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Character, Cartoon

  Source: therumpus.net

• I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Thinking, Yesterday

  Source: therumpus.net

• I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence and misery, I made a more conscious attempt with The Heavenly Table to do that myself.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Reading, Lines

  Source: therumpus.net

• I think the biggest influence on the book, as far as the humor goes, comes, at least indirectly, from the men I worked with in the paper mill. Some of them could make a dog laugh.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Dog, Book, Men

  Source: therumpus.net

• The biggest influence on my writing, besides snagging some ideas about black humor, was that the paper mill had a program where they paid 75 percent of the tuition and book [costs] for employees who wanted to go to college part-time.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Writing, College

  Source: therumpus.net

• Probably because I personally knew at least six or seven people in Ross County who died from overdoses in the last three years. The heroin epidemic is just too aggravating and sad and unsettling for even someone like me to live with and think about for the time it would take to write a book dealing with it.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Book, Writing, Would Be

• I'm always doubting my work, even when people are kind enough to say good things. I still have a hard time believing I've written some books, let alone that they've actually done pretty well.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Believe, Book, Hard Times

  Source: thequietus.com

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