Robert E. Howard Quotes

• I became a writer in spite of my environments.

  Robert E. Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writer, Spite, Became

• Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

  Robert E. Howard

  Topics in Humor, Life, Politics

  Tags in Men, General

• But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

  Robert E. Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Today, Feeling

• 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

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Remember, Living

• I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.

  Robert E. Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book, Writing, Write

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

  Robert E. Howard

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Probably

• I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

  Robert E. Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Enough, Result

• 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

  Topics in Art, Education

  Tags in Writing

• Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

  Robert E. Howard

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Working, Less

• Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one’s lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.

  Robert E. Howard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Light, Less, Seems

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men, Live, Made

Robert E. Howard (11)

Birth:	22nd January, 1906
Death:	11th June, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is probably best known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.

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