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Robert E. Howard

Robert E. Howard

American Writer

Born: Jan 22, 1906

Died: Jun 11, 1936

Living Man Men People Writer Writing

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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

Failure Man Remember First Whatever Living Earn Section Writer Were His Pioneer Just Grandfathers Profession Thing

I became a writer in spite of my environments. Robert E. Howard

Spite Writer Environments Became

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

Book Writing Advice Year Aid Neither Write Writers Never Had Studied Until Read Courses Advising How Nor Anybody Expert

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

Result Own Enough My Own Accomplished Efforts Little

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

Success Will Never Been

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

Age Seen Poet Magazine Having Only Writer Never Had Ideas Editor Began Procedure Fifteen Working Less Profession Chosen Publisher

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

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

Business People Made Men Live Living Percentage Cotton Mainly Cattle Wheat Oil Which Professional Usual Lived Among

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