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
Death, Living, Embrace, Surely
I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
- Zane Grey
More, Been, I See, Depress
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
- Zane Grey
Love, Anniversary, Grows, Poignant
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
- Zane Grey
Best, Night, Everyone, Solitude
I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.
- Zane Grey
Feet, Tired, Cold, Arm
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
Learn, Part, Them, Blaze
Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
- Zane Grey
Writing, Like, Spell, Digging
I hate birthdays.
- Zane Grey
Hate, Birthdays
I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.
- Zane Grey
Game, Will, See, Bitter End
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
- Zane Grey
Writing, Bad, Spell, Unprecedented
The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
- Zane Grey
I Am, Never, Been, Indian
This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
- Zane Grey
Writing, Me, Had, Distracted
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
- Zane Grey
Inspirational, Knowing, Eagerness
There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
- Zane Grey
Children, Mind, Hours, Novel
Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
- Zane Grey
Me, Once, Does, Novel
Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
- Zane Grey
Today, Determined, Began, Novel
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
- Zane Grey
Start, Difficulty, Ordeal
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
- Zane Grey
Nothing, Go, Mine, Toil
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
- Zane Grey
Men, May, Selves, Rise
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
- Zane Grey
Appreciation, Think, Any, Overdoing
I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
- Zane Grey
Pleasure, Confess, Inspires, Stimulates
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
Magic, Hours, Stopped, Cloak
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
- Zane Grey
New, Million, Took, Officers
I need this wild life, this freedom.
- Zane Grey
Life, Freedom, Need, Wild
I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
- Zane Grey
I Am, Fire, Concentration, Ready
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
- Zane Grey
Love, Woman, Itself, Meaning
Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.
- Zane Grey
Work, Changes, Salvation, Moods
What is writing but an expression of my own life?
- Zane Grey
Writing, Own, My Own, Expression
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