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But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.

Daniel Woodrell

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Daniel Woodrell
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 4
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Springfield
Missouri
Book
Enough
Writing
Every
Direction
Long
Books
Four
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