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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
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Baseball Player
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Film Producer
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Zanesville
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.
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There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
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Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
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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.
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
Zane Grey
Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
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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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Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.
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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
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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.
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If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
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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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A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.
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