Quotes by Robert Howard

• I have not been a success, and probably never will be.
• The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.
• Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.
• It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
• I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
• I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
• I became a writer in spite of my environments.
• Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
• But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.
• Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.