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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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
Dentist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
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Zanesville
Ohio
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Work
Love
Write
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Jealously was an unjust and stifling thing.
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I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.
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Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.
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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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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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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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If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
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Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
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Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
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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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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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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
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I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
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