Zane Grey
Zane Grey
Pearl Zane Greywas an American dentist and author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sagewas his best-selling book. In addition to the commercial success of his printed works, they had second lives and continuing influence when adapted as films and television productions. His novels and short stories have been adapted into 112 films, two television episodes, and a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 January 1872
CityZanesville, OH
CountryUnited States of America
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.
I need this wild life, this freedom.
The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
I will see this game of life out to its bitter end
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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.
Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.
Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.
Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.
Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift cold waters of this most beautiful and famous of trout streams. It is something to have striven. It is much to have kept your word.
Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time.