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

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

What is writing but an expression of my own life?

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

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

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

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

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

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

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

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

- Zane Grey

I hate birthdays.

- Zane Grey