List of Robert E. Howard Quotes

I Have Put Off The Past Like A Worn-out Cloak.

Don't You Think That As A People, Americans Have Less Poetry, Real Poetry, In Their Souls Than Any Other Nations?

I Became A Writer In Spite Of My Environments.

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.

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.

Wits And Swords Are As Straws Against The Wisdom Of The Darkness.

All Fled—all Done, So Lift Me On The Pyre— The Feast Is Over, And The Lamps Expire.

What Always Was Must Always Be.

A Woman In Such An Emotional Tempest Is As Perilous As A Blind Cobra To Any About Her.

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.

It Seems To Me That Many Writers, By Virtue Of Environments Of Culture, Art And Education, Slip Into Writing Because Of Their Environments.

I See In The Papers Where Roy Guthrie Committed Suicide. Why, I Wonder?

One Objection I Have Heard Voiced To Works Of This Kind—dealing With Texas—is The Amount Of Gore Spilled Across The Pages. It Can Not Be Otherwise. In Order To Write A Realistic And True History Of Any Part Of The Southwest, One Must Narrate Such Things, Even At The Risk Of Monotony.

I Have Gone Into Yesterday And Tomorrow And Both Were As Real As Today -- Which Is Like The Dreams Of Ghosts!

It Is An Ill Thing To Meet A Man You Thought Dead In The Woodland At Dusk.

Aye, You White Dog, You Are Like All Your Race; But To A Black Man Gold Can Never Pay For Blood.

No Man Can Be Convinced When He Will Not.

I Reckon If I Ever Marry, She Will Have To Be A Strong Woman In A Circus Or Something.

Every Twinge Of Sensation, Even Of Agony, Was A Negation Of Death.

A Kingdom Is Not Lost By A Single Defeat.

It Is Not Pleasant To Come Upon Death In A Lonely Place At Midnight.

I Have Not Been A Success, And Probably Never Will Be.

I Have Known Many Gods. He Who Denies Them Is Blind As He Who Trusts Them Too Deeply.

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.