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

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 p….

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….

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 percenta….

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'….

As for the writers who have influenced me they are many. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flan….

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….

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. T….

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 peop….

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

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

I wrote for television some, animation. Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Son of Batman, things of that nature were made and ….

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….

Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who wrote a series c….

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much..

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 ….

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 fro….

I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you ke….

I have always felt validated and it shouldn't take film to do that for writer, but I'm glad it has. My plan has always been to be read more widely by….

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 o….

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