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Zane Grey
American
Author
About the author
I need this wild life, this freedom.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Life
#Freedom
What is writing but an expression of my own life?
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Life
#Writing
#Expression
I love my work but do not know how I write it.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Love
#Work
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Force
Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Writing
#Blood
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Life
#Death
#Living
#Worth
#Suicide
#Yield
#Blood
#Forgetfulness
Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Today
This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Writing
These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Sincerity
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Children
#Mind
#Force
The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Man
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Difficulty
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Writer
#Appreciation
#Temperament
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#May
#Men
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Life
#Love
#Man
#Woman
#Nature
#Meaning
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Writing
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Achievement
#Lies
#Energy
Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Work
#Moods
#Salvation
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Night
#Silence
#Solitude
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Love
#Years
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Reading
#Pleasure
I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Feet
#Weakness
I hate birthdays.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Hate
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Time
#Nothing
#Treasure
I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Hurt
#Effect
I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Life
#Will
#End
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Magic
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#New year
I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
Zane Grey,
American
Author
#Passion
#Fire