Zane Grey Quotes

“In this materialistic age, this hard, practical, swift, greedy age of realism, it seems there is no place for writers of romance, no place for romance itself. For many years all the events leading up to the great war were realistic, and the war itself was horribly realistic, and the aftermath is likewise. Romance is only another name for idealism; and I contend that life without ideals is not worth living. Never in the history of the world were ideals needed so terribly as now. Walter Scott wrote romance; so did Victor Hugo; and likewise Kipling, Hawthorne, Stevenson. It was Stevenson, particularly, who wielded a bludgeon against the realists. People live for the dream in their hearts. And I have yet to know anyone who has not some secret dream, some hope, however dim, some storied wall to look at in the dusk, some painted window leading to the soul.”
― Zane Grey, Zane Grey: The Ultimate Collection - 49 Works - Classic Westerns and Much More

“The hunter had lived much with dogs and had come to learn that the longer he lived with them the more there was to marvel at and love.”
― Zane Grey, Zane Grey: The Ultimate Collection - 49 Works - Classic Westerns and Much More

“Panhandle Smith was the red-faced cook, merry,”
― Zane Grey, Zane Grey: The Ultimate Collection - 49 Works - Classic Westerns and Much More

“the”
― Zane Grey, Zane Grey: The Ultimate Collection - 49 Works - Classic Westerns and Much More

“viands,”
― Zane Grey, Zane Grey: The Ultimate Collection - 49 Works - Classic Westerns and Much More

“strong, stirring instant as with fascinated eyes I watched”
― Zane Grey, Zane Grey: The Ultimate Collection - 49 Works - Classic Westerns and Much More

“and of storehouses and of freight-trains—destruction”
― Zane Grey, Zane Grey: The Ultimate Collection - 49 Works - Classic Westerns and Much More