Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert E. Howard
Age: 30 †
Born: 1906
Born: January 22
Died: 1936
Died: June 11
Author
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Robert Ervin Howard
REH
R. E. Howard
Robert Howard
Two-Gun Bob
Bob Howard
Patrick Mac Conaire
Steve Costigan
Patrick Ervin
Patrick Howard
Sam Walser
Virtue
Education
Culture
Environments
Art
Slip
Seems
Slips
Many
Writers
Writing
Environment
More quotes by Robert E. Howard
Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.
Robert E. Howard
Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.
Robert E. Howard
The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.
Robert E. Howard
Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.
Robert E. Howard
I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!
Robert E. Howard
What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?
Robert E. Howard
I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
Robert E. Howard
A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.
Robert E. Howard
Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.
Robert E. Howard
It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.
Robert E. Howard
A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
Robert E. Howard
One man's bane is another's bliss.
Robert E. Howard
When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.
Robert E. Howard
What always was must always be.
Robert E. Howard
Money and muscle, that's what I want to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.
Robert E. Howard
I became a writer in spite of my environments.
Robert E. Howard
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?
Robert E. Howard
But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.
Robert E. Howard
Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.
Robert E. Howard
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
Robert E. Howard
