Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I love Crews, but had been writing a long time before I knew of him. I learned of him because a friend… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I would have fought in WW2, so I wasn't a pacifist in the broader sense. I prefer to be a pacifist, but… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I think the big thing is that Stephen King is just a phenomenon, and when he came along, for the first time… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I have been on a horrible sea cruise. When my wife and I went to Mexico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands, I… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
“A moment later, she and The Little Guy disappear into the trees. I didn't know exactly what was going on. I thought… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first… — 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
