I’ve always felt that if you pay your bills and can take care of yourself without too much stress, then it’s a pretty damn good life. Joe R. Lansdale Read Quote
I’ve got friends who totally disagree on politics, religion, cultural things, but at the core, we’re the same people. Joe R. Lansdale Read Quote
If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don’t want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you. Joe R. Lansdale Read Quote
In some ways, I don’t consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters. Joe R. Lansdale Read Quote
When I wrote ‘Savage Season,’ it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I never intended to write the next one. Joe R. Lansdale Read Quote
I have been on a horrible sea cruise. When my wife and I went to Mexico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands, I was seasick for a lot of the time. I didn’t like being trapped on a ship with a bunch of shuffleboarders. Joe R. Lansdale Read Quote
I do better just letting the stories develop. I don’t outline very well, and I can’t follow it if I do. Once I’ve outlined it, why write the damn book? Joe R. Lansdale Read Quote
I was well under the spell of the old Gold Medal Crime novels when I wrote ‘Savage Season,’ and I wanted to write a modern version of that. I had tried the same thing with ‘Cold in July,’ and I wanted to give it another go. Joe R. Lansdale Read Quote
