Zane Grey Quotes
"What is writing but an expression of my own life?"
- Zane Grey
(Related: Life, Expression, Writing)
"I love my work but do not know how I write it."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Love, Work)
"Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Force)
"Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Blood, Writing)
"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
(Related: Death, Life, Blood, Forgetfulness, Living, Suicide, Worth, Yield)
"Today I began the novel that I determined to be great."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Today)
"This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing."
- Zane Grey
(Related: 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
(Related: Sincerity)
"There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Children, Force, Mind)
"The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Man)
"The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Difficulty)
"No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Appreciation, Temperament, Writer)
"Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Men, May)
"Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Life, Love, Nature, Man, Meaning, Woman)
"I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Writing)
"I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Achievement, Energy, Lies)
"Work is my salvation. It changes my moods."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Work, Moods, Salvation)
"I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Night, Silence, Solitude)
"Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Love, Years)
"I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Pleasure, Reading)
"I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Feet, Weakness)
"I hate birthdays."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Hate)
"I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture."
- Zane Grey
(Related: 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
(Related: Effect, Hurt)
"I will see this game of life out to its bitter end."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Life, End, Will)
"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
(Related: Magic)
"It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so."
- Zane Grey
(Related: New year)
"I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion."
- Zane Grey
(Related: Fire, Passion)