Joe R. Lansdale

It seems to be the heart of much of my work. I grew up seeing a lot of racism in the South,…

— Joe R. Lansdale

People in my town were not that into reading, but the overblown way Texans told stories was important.

— Joe R. Lansdale

They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat…

— Joe R. Lansdale

'Night They Missed the Horror Show' is my signature story. It changed my life, so it remains my favorite.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

— Joe R. Lansdale

“You're brooding, Leonard, my friend. What's the problem?" "I blew it with Fitzgerald." "I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit. It…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

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

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

I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.

— Joe R. Lansdale

“Your age doesn't matter," said The Big Guy, which was spoken like someone who had never fucked an old lady. I am…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff

— Joe R. Lansdale

Enjoy it if you do, but don't tell me how to live or teach it in school, or not allow a woman…

— Joe R. Lansdale

“Aren't you embarrassed undressing in front of a queer?" Leonard said. "All you know, I might be sizing up your butthole." "Just…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I think I built my reputation by not worrying about it.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote 'Savage Season,' and I wanted to…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis are just great in that, and Don's direction is sublime. Love it, and I was glad to…

— Joe R. Lansdale

'The Bottoms' or 'A Fine Dark Line' are two of my favorites.

— Joe R. Lansdale

“A furia di provarci, comincio a pensare che il fatto di tentare senza mai riuscirci sia parte di me, proprio come quello…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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

I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press…

— Joe R. Lansdale