If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I always write like the devil's behind me with a whip. I'm going to write because I like it. Then I'm going… — 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… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre. — 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
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
I love Hap and Leonard and plan to write more about them, but not exclusively about them. I have always worked in… — 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
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… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I could always write in a wide variety. My moods change same as reader's moods change. I really do love writing the… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I have always felt validated and it shouldn't take film to do that for writer, but I'm glad it has. My plan… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation. — 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 lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept… — 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
