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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
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Robert E. Howard
Age: 30 †
Born: 1906
Born: January 22
Died: 1936
Died: June 11
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What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.
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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the wild tribes, the barbarians drive in... Who will our invaders be? From whence will they come?
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
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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.
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The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
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Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
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I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
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For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.
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I became a writer in spite of my environments.
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In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
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A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
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Barbarism is the natural state of mankind.
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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
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Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality.
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Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.
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When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
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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.
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I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.
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I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present conditions I don't believe this machine age gives full satisfaction in a spiritual way, if the term may be allowed.
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It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
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