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

- Joe R. Lansdale

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…

- Joe R. Lansdale

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

- Joe R. Lansdale

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…

- Joe R. Lansdale

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…

- Joe R. Lansdale

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

- Joe R. Lansdale

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…

- Joe R. Lansdale

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'…

- Joe R. Lansdale

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…

- Joe R. Lansdale