American - Writer | October 28, 1951 -
When you live in a small town behind the Pine Curtain, you live inside your head a lot.
Joe R. Lansdale
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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.
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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.'
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I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.
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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.
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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.
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Ray Bradbury taught me the importance of metaphor and simile and poetic style.
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Sometimes, if I don't write for a day or two, I get backed up - it's like constipation.
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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.
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I think I built my reputation by not worrying about it.
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I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.
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A lot of friends I went to school with were criminals.
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