Joe R. Lansdale

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept…

— Joe R. Lansdale

When I wrote 'Savage Season,' it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote…

— Joe R. Lansdale

“You're brooding, Leonard, my friend. What's the problem?" "I blew it with Fitzgerald." "I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit. It…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I wrote for television some, animation. Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Son of Batman, things of that nature were…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I have always felt validated and it shouldn't take film to do that for writer, but I'm glad it has. My plan…

— Joe R. Lansdale

“Hap, even tough I'm a racist castrating bitch that wants you to be better than you are, wants you to do something…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Enjoy it if you do, but don't tell me how to live or teach it in school, or not allow a woman…

— Joe R. Lansdale

The Aryan Nation, the Klan, all these anti-immigrant groups - they've never really disappeared, and if you think they have, then you've…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it's hard to know what the state and its people are really about.…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote 'Savage Season,' and I wanted to…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I know the Pollock novel. Read it last year and liked it. Daniel Woodrell is awesome. I especially like the book Winter's…

— Joe R. Lansdale