Zane Grey

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

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

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

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

“Instantly a thick blackness seemed to enfold her and silence as of a dead world settled down upon her. Drowsy as she was she could not close her eyes nor refrain from listening. Darkness and silence were tangible things. She felt them. And they seemed suddenly potent with magic charm to still the tumult of her, to sooth and rest, to create thought she had never thought before. Rest was more than selfish indulgence. Loneliness was necessary to gain conciseness of the soul.”

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

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

“I need this wild life, this freedom.”

“The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.”

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