Robert E. Howard Quotes

Robert E. Howard — American Writer born on January 22, 1906, died on June 11, 1936

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

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

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

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.

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 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 Quotes

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