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- Others
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People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.
- I Think
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I think I built my reputation by not worrying about it.
- Friends
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A lot of friends I went to school with were criminals.
- First
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I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.
- I Write
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I write what I hear.
- Down
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I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.
- Home
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I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.
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I turned out to be a tough, smart kid.
- Education
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My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.
- Car
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My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'
- Father
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My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.
- Hell
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My father was just a hell of a guy. He had a real strong sense of honor, and he tried to pass that on to me. I like to think that I embrace that.
- Life
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My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.
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I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press called 'Zeppelins West' that's nothing but an absolute, over-the-top farce, almost like an Abbott & Costello, alternate-universe Western.
- Mars
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Texas is as alien as Mars.
- People
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Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.
- Person
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I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.
- Never
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I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.
- Just Because
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I don't want people reading my books just because they're horror or mysteries. I want them to read them because they're Joe Lansdale books.
- People
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The simple fact is, the more people who buy your books, the more are likely to read you. That's what I'd like to see happen.
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Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.
- Done
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I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a conscious strategy.
- Own
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If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted.
- Love
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Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.'
- Devil
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I always write like the devil's behind me with a whip. I'm going to write because I like it. Then I'm going to write another.
- Me
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Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.
- Never
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The Aryan Nation, the Klan, all these anti-immigrant groups - they've never really disappeared, and if you think they have, then you've been living in a bubble.
- Legends
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Texas is so wrapped up in myth and legend, it's hard to know what the state and its people are really about. Real Texans, raised on these myths and legends, sometimes become legends themselves.
- Bottom Line
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The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.'
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I sold my first story when I was 21 in 1973.
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