No system is better than another, but some are better for certain people. The person makes a system worthwhile, not the other… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Scott Sigler's Infected is a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you've got… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
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 remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
People in my town were not that into reading, but the overblown way Texans told stories was important. — 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
