Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howardwas an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 January 1906
CountryUnited States of America
real thinking people
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?
kids thinking oil
I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of.
thinking civilization savagery
The more I see of what you call civilization, the more highly I think of what you call savagery!
absolutely among dim enter foreign people profession seems shores unreal
Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.
art writing culture
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
women emotional cobras
A woman in such an emotional tempest is as perilous as a blind cobra to any about her.
men weapons hell
For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.
blind palate deny
I have known many gods. He who denies them is blind as he who trusts them too deeply.
What always was must always be.
men greatest-man
Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.
darkness wit straws
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness...
men convinced
No man can be convinced when he will not.
dream real yesterday
I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!
men bliss one-man
One man's bane is another's bliss.