Zane Grey

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

— Zane Grey

“Surely with all its greatness it could not be lost; surely in the end it must triumph over evil.”

— Zane Grey

“Halt!..." Wade leaped at the white Belllounds. "If you run I'll break a leg for you--an' then I'll beat your miserable brains…

— Zane Grey

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

— Zane Grey

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

— Zane Grey

“And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was,…

— Zane Grey

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

— Zane Grey

“With distrust came suspicion and with suspicion came fear, and with fear came hate--and these, in already distorted minds, inflamed a hell.”

— Zane Grey

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

— Zane Grey

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

— Zane Grey

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

— Zane Grey

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

— Zane Grey

Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

— Zane Grey

“I am waiting to plunge down, to shatter and crash, roar and boom, to bury your trail, and close forever the outlet…

— Zane Grey

“I knew you"d never be American enough to help me reconstruct my life.”

— 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

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

— Zane Grey

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

— Zane Grey

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be…

— Zane Grey

“A man can die. He is glorious when he calmly accepts death; but when he fights like a tiger, when he stands…

— Zane Grey

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

— Zane Grey

“Pride would never be her ally.”

— Zane Grey

“No nerve, hey? Not half a man!... Buster Jack, why don't you finish game? Make up for your low-down tricks. At the…

— Zane Grey

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

— Zane Grey

Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be…

— Zane Grey