Zane Grey Quotes - Page 2

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

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Blood, Sweat

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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.

  Zane Grey

  Depressing, Hurt, Used

  Zane Grey, Lina Elise Grey, Candace C. Kant (2008). “Dolly & Zane Grey: Letters from a Marriage”, p.178, University of Nevada Press

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

  Zane Grey

  Appreciation, Thinking, Overdoing It

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• Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

  Zane Grey

  Law, Raised

  Zane Grey (2015). “Riders of the Purple Sage”, p.12, Xist Publishing

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

  Zane Grey

  Today, Determined, Novel

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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.

  Zane Grey

  Sincerity, Critics, Burned

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

  Zane Grey

  Tired, Hands, Feet

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• Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

  Zane Grey

  Eye, Rivers, Desert

  Zane Grey (2015). “Western Classics Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Last Trail, The Mysterious Rider, The Border Legion, Desert Gold, The Last of the Plainsmen and more”, p.5023, e-artnow

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

  Zane Grey

  Doe, Force, Stay With Me

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

  Zane Grey

  Stronger, Toil, Treasure

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

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Know How, Knows

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

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Records, Spells

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

  Zane Grey

  Children, Mind, Hours

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

  Zane Grey

  Passion, Fire, Concentration

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

  Zane Grey

  Writing, Motion Pictures, Distracted

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• Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.

  Zane Grey

  Unjust, Stifling

  "The Call of the Canyon".

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

  Zane Grey

  Reading, Inspire, Pleasure

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

  Zane Grey

  Men, Stories, He Man

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