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Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

I've done very well financially and sold a lot because I've had a multiple method of attack as a writer. That's a conscious strategy.

Joe R. Lansdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Strategy Done Because Well Attack

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

Joan Armatrading

Love Process You Write Order Tour

Everything that works on the Internet depends on a lot of people collaborating, but there's also these rules that you see across all the really successful platforms. Many, many, many more people consume the information or benefit from the information than actually contribute the information.

Jennifer Pahlka

People Internet You Information See

I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.

Andrew Zuckerman

Best Photography Living Possible

I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

Business Time Myself People Fly Out

There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

Jeffrey Donovan

School High School Year High Started

Films that are entertainments give simple answers but I think that's ultimately more cynical, as it denies the viewer room to think. If there are more answers at the end, then surely it is a richer experience.

Experience Simple Think End More

I suppose movie theaters are the churches of the modern age, where we gather reverently to worship the tinsel gods of Hollywood.

Age Hollywood Worship Modern Where

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.

Walls Door Choices Doors Know Right

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.

Find Group Up Wanted Really

In most specials, the performer's up - not only not surrounded, but up on a stage - and there's a distance between them and the audience, and I think my comedy doesn't work as well in that way.

Work Think Comedy Distance Way Up

Music for me is a bit more spiritual. There are moments when I'm sitting at my piano, and I don't realize that I've been playing for two hours - it feels like divine power. I know it's so cheesy.

Music Power Spiritual Me Moments

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

Joseph Stiglitz

Economics Winner First Economists

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