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Joe R. Lansdale

Joe R. Lansdale

American Writer

Born: Oct 28, 1951

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If you don't toot your own horn, it goeth untooted. Joe R. Lansdale

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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. Joe R. Lansdale

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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. Joe R. Lansdale

Texas is as alien as Mars. Joe R. Lansdale

Alien Mars Texas

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer. Joe R. Lansdale

People Writing Some People See Some Writer Always Blue-Collar White-Collar Career

Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories. Joe R. Lansdale

Me People Keystone Way He Reminds Because Stories Twain

People in my town were not that into reading, but the overblown way Texans told stories was important. Joe R. Lansdale

People Important Reading Way Town Were Texans Stories

My father, he couldn't read or write. Joe R. Lansdale

Father Write He Read

I worked in rose fields, and I worked in potato fields. I did some bouncing. Joe R. Lansdale

Rose Some Potato Bouncing Did Fields Worked

I never got a degree; I just started writing. Joe R. Lansdale

Writing Degree Never Got Just Started

I decided with 'Savage Season' to use a lot of things in my life as the basis. Joe R. Lansdale

Life Savage My Life Lot Decided Use Season Things Basis

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

Best Single Consider Ways Characters Some Them Novel

I work in the mornings almost exclusively. Joe R. Lansdale

Work Mornings Almost

Edgar Rice Burroughs taught me pace and gave me a sense of action and adventure. Joe R. Lansdale

Me Sense Action Gave Adventure Edgar Taught Pace Rice

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

Savage Old Crime Same Thing Cold Spell Tried Give Write Had Wrote Well Another Go Version July Same Modern Gold Gold Medal Wanted Medal Novels Season Thing

I never felt poor. Our family euphemism was that we were broke, which I think psychologically gave you a different feeling. There were people far worse than we were. Joe R. Lansdale

Family You People Feeling Think Gave Our Worse Broke Never Felt Were Than Different Psychologically Which Poor Far Euphemism

My dad was born in 1909, my mother in 1914, I believe. Their life experiences were different than younger parents, so I grew up with a different perspective. Joe R. Lansdale

Life Mother Perspective Parents Believe Born Life Experiences Were Up Than Different Experiences Grew Younger Different Perspective Dad

My grandmother on my mother's side lived to nearly 100 years old, and she had seen Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as a little girl and had come to Texas by covered wagon. Joe R. Lansdale

My parents had become adults during the Great Depression, as had many of my aunts and uncles, so I got stories from all of them. They are fastened up inside me, and now and again, they have to come out. Joe R. Lansdale

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