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Robert E. Howard
American
Writer
About the author
I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
Robert E. Howard,
American
Writer
#Success
#Will
The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.
Robert E. Howard,
American
Writer
#People
#Men
#Living
#Business
#Oil
Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.
Robert E. Howard,
American
Writer
#People
#Light
#Europe
#Profession
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
Robert E. Howard,
American
Writer
#Art
#Culture
#Writing
#Writers
#Education
#Virtue
I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
Robert E. Howard,
American
Writer
#Result
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
Robert E. Howard,
American
Writer
#Writing
#Writers
#Advice
I became a writer in spite of my environments.
Robert E. Howard,
American
Writer
#Writer
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
Robert E. Howard,
American
Writer
#Men
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
Robert E. Howard,
American
Writer
#Man
#Failure
#First
#Writer
#Living
#Profession
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.
Robert E. Howard,
American
Writer
#Feeling
#Today
#Man
#Idea
#Writing
#Living
#Environment
Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.
Robert E. Howard,
American
Writer
#Ideas
#Writer
#Age
#Profession