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

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

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Zane Grey

Difficulty

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

Zane Grey

Man

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.

Zane Grey

Sincerity

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

Zane Grey

Writing

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

Zane Grey

Today

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.

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

Zane Grey

Blood

Writing

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

Zane Grey

Force

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

Zane Grey

Love

Work

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

I need this wild life, this freedom.

Zane Grey

Life

Freedom