We couldn't get it off the ground as a film, but then we begin to think television, and Lowell pushed it out there and Jim and Nick were anxious to do Hap and Leonard anyway, and I had worked with… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I wrote for television some, animation. Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Son of Batman, things of that nature were made and I'm happy about that, but now the recent film and TV stuff have validated me, as… — 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
