American - Writer | October 28, 1951 -
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.
Joe R. Lansdale
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I think there are some people for whom words are like food.
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If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.
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I write what I hear.
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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.
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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 love and respect the West - you can't live in Texas and not do that.
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I turned out to be a tough, smart kid.
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Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.
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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.
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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.
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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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