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Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

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.

Joe R. Lansdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 28, 1951

Topics

People Reading Just Because Want

In the characters that I play, I'm so involved in the look; it's very, very important to me. Because how a person presents him or herself to the world, they're saying something about themselves. It's their first form of advertisement.

Jessica Chastain

Me World Saying Look Person Play

If he wants to blow his head off, let him. I don't give a damn about Jim Bakker.

Damn Him Head Give Off He

I have traveled to three-fourths of the Philippines.

Traveled Philippines

It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

Experience Fun Look Back Just Had

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

Love Song Sometimes Solo Middle Set

When I was only eleven years old, I decided to become a writer. I told this ambition in a letter to Laura Ingalls Wilder; the die was cast. How could I go back on my word?

Ambition Die Back Go Become Old

When I travel around the country and talk about the need to raise the minimum wage or expand access to paid leave, I often talk about the need for us to reject false choices.

Travel Choices Country Talk Need Us

I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.

School War World Eating Remember

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

Health Money Body Existence Social

I have nine children. Four of my children are adopted. We talk about those who have nothing. My children started with nothing, some of them.

Children Nothing Talk Started Four

Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.

Mary E. Pearson

Future Hope Woman President Fifty

Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.

History Three Most Shows Times

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