Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

Joe R. Lansdale

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WritingStoryYouKnowBurnWant

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

Andrei Tarkovsky

FaithCompromiseFightingCreateOwn

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.

John Kricfalusi

AgeBetterYouMoreGoingArtists

When Gingrich attacked CNN's John King for bringing up his alleged proposal of an open marriage to his second wife, Gingrich accused him of lowering the level of discourse in a presidential debate, suggesting that such a discussion is unworthy of consideration by voters.

Robert Dallek

MarriageWifeKingDebateHimOpen

I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I thought it was quite chic. It wasn't a goth or a social group sort of thing.

Romy Madley Croft

Growing UpBlackThoughtGrowingUp

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.

Rudy Rucker

SmartFeelPersonSaySystemHow

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

HappinessIgnorancePeaceManYou

If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not perish, then imperialism cannot remain.

Chiang Kai-shek

CountryImperialismWillNationThen

What we need to do is have empathy and that ultimately, at the end of the day, it's a woman's private choice... I don't support federal funding for abortions, nor do I support late-term abortions.

Chris Gibson

DayWomanEmpathySupportEndNeed

President Trump is President Trump. He is the commander-in-chief. He can roll things out however he wants.

Chris Collins

PresidentOutThingsRollHeTrump

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

Chris Christie

WisdomAcceptanceBelieveLovedKnow

Science fiction is essentially a kind of fiction in which people learn more about how to live in the real world, visiting imaginary worlds unlike our own in order to investigate, by way of pleasurable thought-experiments, how things might be done differently.

Brian Stableford

LiveSciencePeopleWorldLearnWay

Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.

Wole Soyinka

YouCitizenHumanHuman BeingBeing

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