The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All Quotes

“You have there the myth of the essential white America. All the other stuff, the love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
― Don Herron, The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All: The Robert E. Howard LitCrit MegaPack

“Too many people, once they reach a comfortable position in life, forget the important role writers like Hammett — who dropped out of high school in his first year to work supporting his family — or Howard — struggling to break into the pulps with absolutely no professional advice and little encouragement — play in literature, just as they tend to ignore the role the working man and woman play in society.”
― Don Herron, The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All: The Robert E. Howard LitCrit MegaPack

“God is guts” — a pre-Hemingway and pre-Hammett apothegm of toughness — is from the hobo ballad “The Little Red God”
― Don Herron, The Dark Barbarian That Towers Over All: The Robert E. Howard LitCrit MegaPack