Gene Fowler Quotes

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

Gene Fowler

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

Gene Fowler

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

Gene Fowler

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

Gene Fowler

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

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

Gene Fowler

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

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

Gene Fowler

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

Gene Fowler

That man was so much larger than life that there's no scale by which to measure him. Most of Wilson's dialogue, if put down on paper, seems either vulgar or obscene.

Gene Fowler

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

Gene Fowler