Quotations by Zane Grey
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Born: Wednesday, January 31, 1872 Died: Monday, October 23, 1939 (67 years old) Profession: Author Nationality: American
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Force) I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Fire, Passion) I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Feet, Weakness) I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Achievement, Energy, Lies) I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Night, Silence, Solitude) I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Pleasure, Reading) I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Writing) I hate birthdays. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Hate) I love my work but do not know how I write it. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Love, Work) I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Time, Nothing, Treasure) I need this wild life, this freedom. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Life, Freedom) I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Effect, Hurt) I will see this game of life out to its bitter end. - Zane Grey (Keywords: 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 (Keywords: Magic) It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so. - Zane Grey (Keywords: New year) Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Love, Years) Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Life, Love, Nature, Man, Meaning, Woman) Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Men, May) No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Appreciation, Temperament, Writer) The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Difficulty) The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Man) There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Children, Force, Mind) 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 (Keywords: Sincerity) This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Writing) Today I began the novel that I determined to be great. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Today) What is writing but an expression of my own life? - Zane Grey (Keywords: Life, Expression, 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 (Keywords: Death, Life, Blood, Forgetfulness, Living, Suicide, Worth, Yield) Work is my salvation. It changes my moods. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Work, Moods, Salvation) Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me. - Zane Grey (Keywords: Blood, Writing)
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