138 Quotes by Joe R. Lansdale

Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.

My father was just a hell of a guy. He had a real strong sense of honor, and he tried to pass that on to me. I like to think that I embrace that.

I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press called 'Zeppelins West' that's nothing but an absolute, over-the-top farce, almost like an Abbott & Costello, alternate-universe Western.

Texas is as alien as Mars.

I come from a poor family.

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.