Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

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• Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Squirrels, Sound, Littles

  Joe R. Lansdale (2016). “Bad Chili: Hap and Leonard Book Four”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Hallowed be thy name, oh Lord -- and shotgun do your stuff

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Names, Stuff, Lord

  Joe R. Lansdale (2011). “Dead in the West”, p.165, Gere Donovan Press

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• I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Hair, Years, Berries

  Joe R. Lansdale “Deranged by Choice”, KHP Publishers

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• Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Pet, Skins, Trying

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• Enjoy it if you do, but don't tell me how to live or teach it in school, or not allow a woman the right to choose, and so on. Yeah, all of that slips into my work. I even got a death threat the other day for not being pro gun, which just proves my point. They can kiss my ass.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  School, Kissing, Gun

  Source: thequietus.com

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• They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That’s my motto.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Lying, Cat, People

  Joe R. Lansdale (2011). “Devil Red”, p.26, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read Hap and Leonard, but a large percentage are crossover readers. And yes, I did refuse to go to Vietnam and it looked like prison was in my future, but they sent me to the psychiatrist and he gave me a 1-Y, which is unfit for military service essentially.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Military, Vietnam, Stuff

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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 people working there.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  People, Want, Wonderful

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A day without the sun is like you know, night

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Night, Sun, Like You

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• The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Frustration, Men, Confusion

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• I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Thinking, Broken, May

  Source: thequietus.com

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• As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and so many others. As a kid Kipling and Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Robert E. Howard.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Kids, Scott Fitzgerald, Rays

  Source: thequietus.com

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• First, there has been a lot of interest in The Drive-in, but, alas, it hasn't actually come to fruition. Maybe soon. Don really got Bubba and I didn't think it could be a film. I thought it was too odd to make it to film. He asked me to do the screenplay, but I declined. I didn't see that it could be a screenplay but he wrote one and proved me wrong. He was always considerate about what I thought about the film and the story's presentation, but in the end, he's the director and he had to make decisions. All good ones.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Thinking, Decision, Directors

  Source: thequietus.com

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• No system is better than another, but some are better for certain people. The person makes a system worthwhile, not the other way around. I blended a lot of systems I had studied over the years, Judo, wrestling, boxing, Hapkido, Kenpo, Thai Boxing, American Kickboxing, Jujitsu, Aikido.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Wrestling, Years, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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 the film made from it. Larry Brown is terrific, all his work, but for me Joe in particular, also a good film, but a much better novel.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Book, Winter, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I could always write in a wide variety. My moods change same as reader's moods change. I really do love writing the historicals, however, but if that's all I did I would go crazy, same with any of the other kinds of books. I need variety.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love Hap and Leonard and plan to write more about them, but not exclusively about them. I have always worked in film, or since the eighties, but my screenplays - though I got paid and did screenplays for Ridley Scott and John Irvin and Mark Romanek - seldom got made.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Writing, Film, Made

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I love Crews, but had been writing a long time before I knew of him. I learned of him because a friend thought we were similar. The reason we are is we were both heavily influenced by Flannery O'Conner. She was wonderful.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Writing, Long, Wonderful

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I had no idea Savage Season was the beginning of a series. I wrote the second one about three years later. The character of Hap wouldn't stop talking to me, and then there was a third, and over the years nine novels and a collection of stories and some uncollected stories.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Character, Talking, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I would have fought in WW2, so I wasn't a pacifist in the broader sense. I prefer to be a pacifist, but I think there are exceptions and times to defend yourself or your country, but that war wasn't one of them.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Hypocrite, Break Off, Want

  Joe R. Lansdale (2012). “Edge of Dark Water”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Men, Self, Made

  Joe R. Lansdale (2010). “Mucho Mojo: A Hap and Leonard Novel (2)”, p.101, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Scott Sigler's Infected is a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you've got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way. All in all, one hell of an exhilarating ride, and highly recommended.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Thinking, Balance, Ponies

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• I took what worked for me and found I had a system that others were interested in and seemed to work for a wide number of people. It was recognised by other martial artists, grandmasters and such, and they gave me the recognition. I'm proud of my work in martial arts. I still teach but only once a week in a private class, and I train a couple more days a week.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Art, Couple, Class

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis are just great in that, and Don's direction is sublime. Love it, and I was glad to be a part of it, if just in spirit and Don's desire for it to be a good film and for me to be happy with it. When I first saw it I was very impressed, and it gets better with repeat viewings.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Sublime, Get Better, Desire

  Source: thequietus.com

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