Zane Grey famous quotes

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
-- Zane Grey

#Men

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

#Fishing #Long #Capture

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
-- Zane Grey

#Lying #Knowing #Achievement

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.
-- Zane Grey

#Inspiration #Achievement #Tasks

Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tears are close; To resist disease and evil men and base instincts; To hate hate and to love love; To go on when it would seen good to die; To look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great.
-- Zane Grey

#Hate #Grief #Fighting

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.
-- Zane Grey

#Life #Suicide #Dark

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
-- Zane Grey

#Writing #Night #Silence

I need this wild life, this freedom.
-- Zane Grey

#Freedom #Needs

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
-- Zane Grey

#Anniversary #Years #Love Grows

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

#Writing #Blood #Sweat

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
-- Zane Grey

#Realism

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

#Men #Stories #He Man

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
-- Zane Grey

#Eye #Rivers #Desert

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

#Law #Raised

Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.
-- Zane Grey

#Unjust #Stifling

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

#New Year #Years #Decent

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.
-- Zane Grey

#Rainy Day #Sky #Light

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
-- Zane Grey

#Difficulty #Ordeals

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

#Children #Mind #Hours

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

#Writing #Motion Pictures #Distracted

Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
-- Zane Grey

#Today #Determined #Novel

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
-- Zane Grey

#Philosophy #Sea #Fishing

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
-- Zane Grey

#Sea #Fishing #Rivers

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.
-- Zane Grey

#Beautiful #Sea #Fishing

Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.
-- Zane Grey

#Beautiful #Sea #Fishing

Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.
-- Zane Grey

#Men #Six #Insult

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

#Reading #Inspire #Pleasure

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

#Tired #Hands #Feet

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

#Sincerity #Critics #Burned

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

#Men #Self #May

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.
-- Zane Grey

#Moon #Blue #Funny Things

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

#Doe #Force #Stay With Me

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
-- Zane Grey

#Passion #Fire #Concentration

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

#Writing #Records

I love my work but do not know how I write it.
-- Zane Grey

#Writing

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

#Depressing #Hurt #Used

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

#Games #Bitter #Ends

Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time.
-- Zane Grey

#Fishing #Mind #Bad Times

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

#Appreciation #Thinking #Connected

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
-- Zane Grey

#Stronger #Treasure #Toil

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
-- Zane Grey

#Sea #Fishing #Rivers