Gene Fowler famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Inspirational #Writing #Blood
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
-- Gene Fowler

#Confidence #Men
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
-- Gene Fowler

#Running #Writing #Thinking
A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
-- Gene Fowler

#Book #Abandoned
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
-- Gene Fowler

#Inspirational #Writing #Blood
Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.
-- Gene Fowler

#Confidence #Men #Selfishness
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
-- Gene Fowler

#Writing #Successful #Way
Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco
-- Gene Fowler

#Men #Cities #Two
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.
-- Gene Fowler

#Sarcastic #Brother #Writing
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
-- Gene Fowler

#Art #Writing #Editors
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
-- Gene Fowler

#Birthday #Respect #Profound
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?
-- Gene Fowler

#School #Principles #Divine Revelation
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind
-- Gene Fowler

#Hygiene #Two #Mind
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
-- Gene Fowler

#Memories #Games #Darkness
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.
-- Gene Fowler

#World #Speech #Said
It is no disgrace to rest a bit.
-- Gene Fowler

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

#Gratitude #Water #Desert
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.
-- Gene Fowler

#Eagles #Wings #Bags
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
-- Gene Fowler

#Success #Children #Toys
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
-- Gene Fowler

#Decision #Mind #Firsts
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.
-- Gene Fowler

#Money #Men #Dollars
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
-- Gene Fowler

#Long #Information #Psychiatry
If they haven't heard it before it's original.
-- Gene Fowler

#Originality #Heard #Havens

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