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What is writing but an expression of my own life?
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
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Screenwriter
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Zanesville
Ohio
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Writing
Life
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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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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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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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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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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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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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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 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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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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There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.
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Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
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I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
Zane Grey
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
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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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Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.
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Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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