Books Quote by Gerald W. Haslam

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

— Patrick deWitt

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies…

— Elizabeth Crook

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any…

— Lawrence Kasdan

“Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...”

— Johnny D. Boggs

Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ...…

— Walter Kirn

The American West is just arriving at the threshold of its greatness and growth. Where the West of yesterday is glamorized in our fiction,…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“I do not consider myself Western, but rather modern”

— Azar Nafisi

“Great Books of the Western World.”

— Kevin Kelly

Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relationship of…

— Robert M. Utley

The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal,…

— Elizabeth Crook

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but…

— Sergio Leone

The East was no longer a threat to the western world, and when there's nothing to fear we turn our backs, we look elsewhere.…

— Dumitru Tepeneag