Gene Fowler Quotes
- Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
- Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
- Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
- A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
- Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
- Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
- It is easier to believe than to doubt.
- Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
- The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
- For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked…
- Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
- What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
- 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…
- He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
- 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…
- If they haven't heard it before it's original.
- Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
- Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.