Quotes By Zane Grey

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

I hate birthdays.

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

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.

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

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.

Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.