Gene Fowler Quotations

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

For the first time, we're starting to get at the biological base of what makes a human. I think you're going to have more and more people coming into their family doctors waving a piece of paper and saying: 'What do I do with this?

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?

It is no disgrace to rest a bit.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.

News is history shot on the wing.