Name	Zane Grey
Other Name(s)	Pearl Zane Gray
Date of Birth	January 31, 1872
Birthplace	Zanesville, OH
Star Sign	Aquarius
Died	October 23, 1939 (Aged 67)
Location of Death	Altadena, CA
Cause of Death	Heart Failure
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	White
University	University of Pennsylvania (1896)
Occupation	Writer
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Claim to Fame	Novel - Riders of the Purple Sage
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I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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I need this wild life, this freedom.

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What is writing but an expression of my own life?

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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.

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

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

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

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I hate birthdays.

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

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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

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