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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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I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press called 'Zeppelins West' that's nothing but an absolute, over-the-top farce, almost like an Abbott & Costello, alternate-universe Western.

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Texas is as alien as Mars.

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I come from a poor family.

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Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

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I figure I can be artistic, but I work like a blue-collar person, too, and I'm serious about that.

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I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

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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.

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The simple fact is, the more people who buy your books, the more are likely to read you. That's what I'd like to see happen.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 28th, 1951

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