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

Zane Grey

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Zane Grey
Age: 67 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 31
Died: 1939
Died: October 23
Author
Baseball Player
Dentist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Zanesville
Ohio
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Unprecedented
Spell
Spells
Record
Records

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Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.
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