Robert E. Howard Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Robert E. Howard

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Dark Valley Destiny: The Life of Robert E. Howard". Book by L. Sprague deCamp, Catherine Crook (p. 156), 1983.

• Musings The little poets sing of little things: Hope, cheer, and faith, small queens and puppet kings; Lovers who kissed and then were made as one, And modest flowers waving in the sun. The mighty poets write in blood and tears And agony that, flame-like, bites and sears. They reach their mad blind hands into the night, To plumb abysses dead to human sight; To drag from gulfs where lunacy lies curled, Mad, monstrous nightmare shapes to blast the world. [click on the thumbnail by Jack "King" Kirby]

  Robert E. Howard

  Kings, Queens, Cheer

  Robert E. Howard (2008). “The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard”, p.158, Del Rey

• 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.

  Robert E. Howard

  Writing, Men, Ideas

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

• It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

  Robert E. Howard

  Art, Writing, Culture

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

• One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind—dealing with Texas—is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony.

  Robert E. Howard

  Writing, Texas, Order

  From a letter to August Derleth, March 1933.

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