Books Quote by Joe R. Lansdale Download Open image “I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.” — Joe R. Lansdale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Like Plan Plot Reader Surprised
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself. — James Herbert Copy Share Image
I write sentence to sentence. That's the kind of writer I am. I don't have a plot when I begin. I have to be… — Lorraine Adams Copy Share Image
Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I really try to plot in a fearless fashion. I try not to care about not knowing the answer before I get there; I… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I'm a well-intentioned plotter who ends up with wondrous pantsing revelations and (at times) ginormous rewrites that look almost nothing like my carefully plotted… — Violet Duke Copy Share Image
Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire to know what happens,… — Colin Greenland Copy Share Image
I don't like plots. I don't know what a plot means. I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning -… — Maira Kalman 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
