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Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

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
Coal
Sweat
Blood
Writing
Like
Spell
Digging
Spells

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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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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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