Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

It's lovely to be recognized in your own country, but I feel that there's more.

You kind of hope as a musician that you get some recognition for what you do, and when you do, it's nice. It's a really good feeling.

If you meet someone on the street that likes something that you did or likes the way you brought this character to life, that's really rewarding. That's really cool.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

I don't know of a filmmaker who does not feel buoyed and lifted when their peers embrace the work.

If 10 people see my movie and all ten really love it, then that means a lot to me, rather than ten million people go and see it and most of them hate it.

I think at any point in your career as a creative, whether you're an actor, writer whatever it's a real turning point when someone who's not you turns around and validates your work it gives you a lot of confidence.

I wrote for 'King of the Hill' for three seasons.

To finally have people receive and hear what I'm saying is one of the most gratifying feelings an artist can ever have.

I'd like to say I don't care, but I do. 'Cause when you put out a record, you try to do it for yourself first, and you want your audience to accept it, but you also want the press to accept it, too, because it validates what you do.

If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.

It's always nice to have another filmmaker to reassure you that you are making a good quality film.

When you're an artist, nobody ever tells you or hits you with the magic wand of legitimacy. You have to hit your own head with your own handmade wand. And you feel stupid doing it.

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.

I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write

I asked Mr. Vann which O levels you need to write situation comedy for television. Mr. Vann said that you don't need qualifications at all, you just need to be a moron.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

I finished my career the way I wanted to.

Ed Simmons and I became stars in the emerging medium of television. We were new and fresh, just like TV at the time, so we automatically became 'THE' comedy writers for television.

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

If you're going to do a guest spot on television, they need bodies on those procedural TV shows. You've got to keep working, and that's where a lot of the work is.

There are so many sitcoms. So, when you get to be a part of something that feels exciting to you, you just want to be a part of it.

I think when it comes to television as opposed to film, the producers really are the writers. We work with people who are purely financial producers.