Quotes by Zane Grey

About Zane Grey:

Pearl Zane Grey was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that were a basis for the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book. In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, they had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions. His novels and short stories have been adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a television series, Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater.
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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.

Zane Grey

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

Zane Grey

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

Zane Grey

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

Zane Grey

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

Zane Grey

It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

Zane Grey

I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

Zane Grey

There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.

Zane Grey

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

Zane Grey

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

Zane Grey

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Zane Grey

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Zane Grey

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

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When I envied a man's spurs then they were indeed worth coveting.

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Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

Zane Grey

Author Bio

  • NameZane Grey
  • Descriptionwriter
  • BornJanuary 31, 1872
  • DiedOctober 23, 1939
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBaseball Player; Film Producer; Novelist; Dentist; Writer