Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

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.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

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

I write to escape ... to escape poverty.

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.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?