91 Quotes by Zane Grey

People live for the dream in their hearts. And I have yet to know anyone who has not some secret dream, some hope, however dim, some storied wall to look at in the dusk, some painted window leading to the soul.

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.

Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow leaped to show me fleetingly the life and spirit of his element.

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.