--- title: "2 Burroughs Quotes By Joe R. Lansdale" description: "2 Burroughs quotes by Joe R. Lansdale. Plus more from Joe R. Lansdale and more Burroughs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b8/joe-r-lansdale-3119_bradbury_as-for-the-writers-who-have-influenced-m_1234316.png" --- > [As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and so many others. As a kid Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/as-for-the-writers-who-have-influenced-me-they-are-many-hemingway/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b8/joe-r-lansdale-3119_bradbury_as-for-the-writers-who-have-influenced-m_1234316.png) > [Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/edgar-rice-burroughs-taught-me-pace-and-gave-me-a-sense-of-action-and/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/371/joe-r-lansdale-3119_action_edgar-rice-burroughs-taught-me-pace-and_3118155.png) ## Other authors on Burroughs ## More by Joe R. Lansdale > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/i-have-finally-become-my-own-genre-and-now-that-s-what-publishers/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/some-people-see-writing-as-a-white-collar-career-but-i-ve-always/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [“‎He decided quite suddenly, having kept fairly good record on the calendar, that tomorrow was Christmas Eve, and zombies be damned. The Christmas lights…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/he-decided-quite-suddenly-having-kept-fairly-good-record-on-the/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [A lot of friends I went to school with were criminals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/a-lot-of-friends-i-went-to-school-with-were-criminals/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [I think there are some people for whom words are like food.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/i-think-there-are-some-people-for-whom-words-are-like-food/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/the-reviews-on-it-and-the-new-novel-honky-tonk-samurai-have-been/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [“Killing ain’t no good thing, son, unless it’s to eat or protect yourself. And you ought never to delight in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/killing-ain-t-no-good-thing-son-unless-it-s-to-eat-or-protect/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/i-ve-done-very-well-financially-and-sold-a-lot-because-i-ve-had-a/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/i-used-to-just-sit-down-and-read-the-dictionary-and-i-read-the-bible/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/my-parents-had-become-adults-during-the-great-depression-as-had-many/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 Bone, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/i-know-the-pollock-novel-read-it-last-year-and-liked-it-daniel/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/my-grandmother-on-my-mother-s-side-lived-to-nearly-100-years-old-and/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [I write what I hear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/i-write-what-i-hear/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/i-ve-been-writing-since-1973-i-ve-written-nonfiction-things-of-that/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-r-lansdale/far-as-i-knew-closest-she-d-gotten-to-art-was-a-drafting-table-and/) [Joe R. Lansdale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-r-lansdale/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/burroughs/joe-r-lansdale/#itemlist", "name": "2 Burroughs Quotes By Joe R. 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