Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.' — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation. — 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 do better just letting the stories develop. I don't outline very well, and I can't follow it if I do. Once… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I always write like the devil's behind me with a whip. I'm going to write because I like it. Then I'm going… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
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… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Scott Sigler's Infected is a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you've got… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious… — 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
I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who… — 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
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
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 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
