Comprehending Quote by Lafcadio Hearn

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

— Patrick deWitt

I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally.

— Lisa Joy

“Look at all the Eastern writers who've written great Western literature. Kazuo Ishiguro. You'd never guess that The Remains of the Day or Never…

— G. Willow Wilson

As an American writer, the literary tradition that I draw on the most is the Anglo-American one, and when you are writing in this…

— Ken Liu

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

— Johnny D. Boggs

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

— Patrick deWitt

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former has not been kicked in the ass enough.

— Witold Gombrowicz

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.

— Witold Gombrowicz

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

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

But in the West it is very easy to dissolve the ego. So whenever a Western seeker reaches an understanding that ego is the…

— Rajneesh

When you draw a western correctly, you create such drama, such dilemma that you think you almost don't want to admit who you might…

— Kevin Costner