My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
My father was just a hell of a guy. He had a real strong sense of honor, and he tried to pass… — 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
My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from… — 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
My dad was born in 1909, my mother in 1914, I believe. Their life experiences were different than younger parents, so I… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm.… — 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
