Top 25 Quotes by Robert E. Howard of 86 - Page 4

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

Robert E. Howard

Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, c. July 1933.

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

Robert E. Howard

Kingdoms, Defeat, Lost

Robert E. Howard (2016). “Conan the conqueror”, p.89, Robert E. Howard

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

Robert E. Howard

Dog, Men, Race

Robert E Howard “Conan the Barbarian”, Lulu.com

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

Robert E. Howard

Past, Cloaks, Worn

Robert E. Howard (2016). “The Hour of the Dragon: American modern Literature”, p.110, VM eBooks

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

Robert E. Howard

Suicide, Paper, Wonder

Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, October 5, 1923.

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

Robert E. Howard

Dream, Real, Yesterday

Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.90, Del Rey

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

Art, Writing, Culture

Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

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

Men, Oil, People

Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.15, Del Rey

It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

Robert E. Howard

Men, Ill, Dusk

Robert E. Howard (2016). “Conan the conqueror”, p.99, Robert E. Howard

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

Moving, Insanity, Brain

Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, c. November 1928.