I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts. Robert E. Howard More Quotes by Robert E. Howard More Quotes From Robert E. Howard The only safe enemy was a headless enemy. Robert E. Howard headlesssafeenemy It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk. Robert E. Howard duskillmen I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one. Robert E. Howard interestracecountry The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams. Robert E. Howard dreamcloudsmen Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death. Robert E. Howard negationsensationsagony In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier. Robert E. Howard expressioncivilizationcountry The poem you sent me was as fiery and virile as anything you've ever written - or anybody else, for that matter. Especially the second part went to my brain like the flaming liquor of insanity. No one else besides Jack London has the power to move me just that way. Robert E. Howard braininsanitymoving Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations? Robert E. Howard realpeoplethinking The printed page was like wine to me. Robert E. Howard printedpageswine What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words. Robert E. Howard barrendoorsmen I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder? Robert E. Howard papersuicidewonder A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat. Robert E. Howard defeatkingdomslost Civilization is a natural and inevitable consequence - whether good or evil I am not prepared to state. Robert E. Howard evilnaturalcivilization Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness. Robert E. Howard strawswitdarkness Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of the plot snap together momentarily and give men faint glimpses beyond the veil of this everyday blindness we call reality. Robert E. Howard givingmenreality I became a writer in spite of my environments. Robert E. Howard spiteenvironment But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. Robert E. Howard pioneersgrandfathermen I have not been a success, and probably never will be. Robert E. Howard It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments. Robert E. Howard writingcultureart The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men. Robert E. Howard oilmenpeople
