Robert E. Howard: Man
Robert E. Howard was American author. Explore interesting quotes on man.
From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (c. July 1933)
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Context: It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments. I became a writer in spite of my environments. Understand, I am not criticizing those environments. They were good, solid and worthy. The fact that they were not inducive to literature and art is nothing in their disfavor. 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. 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. That is most certainly not in their disfavor. 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. 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. I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts. 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. Ordinarily I had no access to public libraries, and when I did, it was to no such libraries as exist in the cities. Until recently — a few weeks ago in fact — I employed no agent. I have not been a success, and probably never will be. 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.
"The Pit of the Serpent" (1929)
Context: The men on the Dauntless have disliked the Sea Girl's crew ever since our skipper took their captain to a cleaning on the wharfs of Zanzibar--them being narrow-minded that way. They claimed that the old man had a knuckle-duster on his right, which is ridiculous and a dirty lie. He had it on his left.
“Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.”
A former chief of Abombi to Conan
"The Scarlet Citadel" (1933)
"The God in the Bowl" (1952)
"Queen of the Black Coast" (1934)
From “Revenge” in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (c. late Aug/early September 1927)
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"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" (1953)
From a letter to Harold Preece (c. June 1928)
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"The Phoenix on the Sword" (1932)
From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (March 6, 1933)
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Valerius recounting the tale of how Conan was caught
"A Witch Shall Be Born" (1934)
Comment made to Novalyne Price. One Who Walked Alone by Novalyne Price Ellis, pp. 78-79
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From a letter to Harold Preece (c. early 1928)
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From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (c. May 1928)
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"Shadows in Zamboula" (1935)
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (April 21, 1924)
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