Zane Grey - biography

“There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.”

“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.”

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

“I need this wild life, this freedom.”

“I hate birthdays.”

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

“What is writing but an expression of my own life?”

“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.”

“I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.”

“I love my work but do not know how I write it.”

“Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.”

“Love of man for woman - love of woman for man.  That’s the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.”

“I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.”

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

“Work is my salvation.  It changes my moods.”

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

“I am full of fire and passion.  I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.”

“I am tired.  My arm aches.  My head boils.  My feet are cold.  But I am not aware of any weakness.”

“I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure.  It stimulates and inspires me.”

“I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.”

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

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

“It was a decent New Year’s, but it took a million officers to make it so.”

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

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

“The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.”

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

“Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.”

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

Zane Grey contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Graft (1915)
The Thundering Herd (1925)
The Vanishing American (1925)
Wild Horse Mesa (1925)
Nevada (1927)
Stairs of Sand (1929)
The Border Legion (1930)
Fighting Caravans (1931)
Heritage of the Desert (1932)
Wild Horse Mesa (1932)
Man of the Forest (1933)
Sunset Pass (1933)
The Thundering Herd (1933)
The Woman Accused (1933)
To the Last Man (1933)
Under the Tonto Rim (1933)
The Last Round-Up (1934)
The Dude Ranger (1934)
Born to the West (1937)
The Mysterious Rider (1938)
Heritage of the Desert (1939)
The Light of Western Stars (1940)
The Border Legion (1940)
Knights of the Range (1940)
Western Union (1941)
Nevada (1944)
West of the Pecos (1945)
The Maverick Queen (1956)