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.

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

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

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.

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 and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

News is history shot on the wing.

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.

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

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 and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

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

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

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

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.

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

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

It is no disgrace to rest a bit.

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

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

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