The reviews on it, and the new novel, Honky Tonk Samurai have been awesome, though I'm of the school if you believe… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Copy Share Image
I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and… — 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
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
Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.' — 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
First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?” — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I could always write in a wide variety. My moods change same as reader's moods change. I really do love writing the… — 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 don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader. — 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 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 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 conscious strategy. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
