Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

I knew nothing about the technique of story writing, and now, after eighteen years of writing, I still know nothing about the technique, although with the publication of my new novel, Tarzan and the Lost Empire, there are 31 books on my list.

Subconscious minds are no less fallible than the objective mind.