Zane Grey
Zane Grey
Pearl Zane Greywas an American dentist and author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sagewas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 January 1872
CityZanesville, OH
CountryUnited States of America
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
What is writing but an expression of my own life?
If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time.
A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.