It seems to be the heart of much of my work. I grew up seeing a lot of racism in the South, but I've seen it all over the world. Don't care for it at….

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 ….

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

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 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 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….

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….

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….

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

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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'….

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….

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

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..

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….