Books Quote by Joe R. Lansdale Download Open image ““You need to read some Agatha Christie, man. Why? Am I being punished?”” — Joe R. Lansdale ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Magpie Murders pays quiet homage to Agatha Christie at least half a dozen times.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.” — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader.… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples. Death on the Nile, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Murders .. on the links, .. at the vicarage, and.. on the Orient Express. I real them on the subway, at the deli, and in my bed alone. You… — Amor Towles Copy Share
“ There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as a symptom… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.” — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
“When The Journal of Words compiled its list of the one hundred best novels written in English, do you know that Pride and Prejudice was number twelve?" She stopped pacing and glared at Jane. "And do you know where Jane Eyre was?" she asked. She looked at the four of them in turn, but nobody answered her. "Number fifty-two!" she… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share
“I have to write, as if I were carrying out a punishment. And the greatest punishment is to know that whatever I write will… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“And my own feelings? Shame. For I had lied. Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane Eyre over… — Diane Setterfield 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
