Books Quote by Joe R. Lansdale

In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who wrote a…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

— David Quammen

I'm not terribly well read. My wife forces books into my hands and insists I read them, which I'm grateful to her for. She…

— Peter Capaldi

For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the biography of…

— Dave Barry

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

— Richard Wright

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

— Charles Kuralt

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting…

— Van Morrison

I preferred to read than talk with the others.

— Hannah Kent

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

— Nat Hentoff

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

— Adriana Trigiani