Zane Grey
Novelist
1872-01-31 – 1939-10-23
Zane Grey was an American novelist whose best-selling western fiction helped define the genre in 20th-century popular culture. His novel Riders of the Purple Sage became one of the landmark works of western literature.
Quotes by Zane Grey
-
Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.
Read quote -
I need this wild life, this freedom.
Read quote -
Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.
Read quote -
I need this wild life, this freedom.
Read quote -
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
Read quote -
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Read quote -
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
Read quote -
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
Read quote -
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
Read quote -
I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
Read quote -
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Read quote -
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.
Read quote