Zane Grey Quotes

“The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.”

“Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.”

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

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

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

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

“I love my work but do not know how I write it.”

“What is writing but an expression of my own life?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I need this wild life, this freedom.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I hate birthdays.”