Quotes by Zane Grey

• I need this wild life, this freedom.
• What is writing but an expression of my own life?
• I love my work but do not know how I write it.
• Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
• Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
• Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
• This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
• There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
• Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
• Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
• I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
• I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
• Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
• Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
• I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
• I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
• I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
• I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
• 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.
• It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
• I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.