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Joe R. Lansdale

American Writer

Born: Oct 28, 1951

First Like Me People Writing You

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I come from blue collar. I'm very working class. Joe R. Lansdale

Class Collar Come Very Blue Blue-Collar Working Working-Class

I started writing when I was 9. My mother told me it was before that, but that was the first I remember. Joe R. Lansdale

Me Writing Remember Mother First Before Started

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed. Joe R. Lansdale

You Better Wife Poverty Ambition Young Out Writer Poverty Line Because Does Always Line Trying Going Just Just Because Anyone Mean Succeed Lived Things Kept Starting Below

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. Joe R. Lansdale

People Sometimes Myth Become Legend State Wrapped About Myths Know Real Texans Texas Up Legends Themselves Really Hard Raised

I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I was very young, a small child, and I said to my mom, 'Why are those people going up those stairs?' And she said, 'You know, I don't know how to tell you this, I don't know how to explain it, but it won't always be that way, because it's wrong.' Joe R. Lansdale

Mom You People Remember Young Back Once Way Those Out Tell Wound Small Small Child Wrong Know She Because Said Always How Up Very Child Going Theater Explain Stairs Stairway Why

'The Bottoms' or 'A Fine Dark Line' are two of my favorites. Joe R. Lansdale

Dark Favorites Fine Line Two

I think the big thing is that Stephen King is just a phenomenon, and when he came along, for the first time horror was suddenly considered a very commercial genre. It had always been around, of course, but now, the books had the word 'horror' actually printed on their spines. Joe R. Lansdale

Time Word King First Big Think Books Considered Horror Had He Stephen King Along Genre Course Printed Around First Time Always Came Been Very Commercial Just Big Thing Suddenly Now Actually Thing Phenomenon

Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation. Joe R. Lansdale

Day Sometimes Backed Write Like Up Get Two

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader. Joe R. Lansdale

Plot Like Reader Surprised Plan

I think there are some people for whom words are like food. Joe R. Lansdale

Food People Words Some People Think Some Like Whom

I write what I hear. Joe R. Lansdale

Write Hear

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