Zane Grey Quotes

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Zane Grey

Profession : Author

Birth : January 31, 1872

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

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

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

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

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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.

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What is writing but an expression of my own life?

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

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I hate birthdays.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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