People in my town were not that into reading, but the overblown way Texans told stories was important. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I've got friends who totally disagree on politics, religion, cultural things, but at the core, we're the same people. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated,… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The simple fact is, the more people who buy your books, the more are likely to read you. That's what I'd like… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.' — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I always disliked that anytime you had gays represented in - and there were some exceptions, certainly - but represented in popular… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
No system is better than another, but some are better for certain people. The person makes a system worthwhile, not the other… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I took what worked for me and found I had a system that others were interested in and seemed to work for… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
“He decided quite suddenly, having kept fairly good record on the calendar, that tomorrow was Christmas Eve, and zombies be damned. The Christmas lights… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
The reviews on it, and the new novel, Honky Tonk Samurai have been awesome, though I'm of the school if you believe the good… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
“Killing ain’t no good thing, son, unless it’s to eat or protect yourself. And you ought never to delight in it.” — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a conscious strategy. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's Bone, and… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
My grandmother on my mother's side lived to nearly 100 years old, and she had seen Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as a little… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to some extent,… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
“Far as I knew, closest she'd gotten to art was a drafting table and dressing mannequins in store windows, and the closest I'd gotten… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share
