Gene Fowler Quotes

• 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

  Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. "Successful Scientific Writing", p. 53, 2000.

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

  Gene Fowler

  Confidence, Men, Selfishness

  "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.

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• 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

  Attributed without citation in Blythe Camenson "How to Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book", p. 188, 2002.

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

  Gene Fowler

  Men, Cities, Two

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

  Gene Fowler

  Sarcastic, Brother, Writing

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• 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

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

  Gene Fowler

  Birthday, Respect, Profound

  Attributed to Gene Fowler in Judy Valon "In Your 60s", 2009.

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• A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

  Gene Fowler

  Book, Abandoned, Finished

  "The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler". Book by H. Allen Smith, 1977.

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• 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

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

  Gene Fowler

  Running, Writing, Thinking

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• 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

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

  Gene Fowler

  Memories, Games, Darkness

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• 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

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• 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

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• It is no disgrace to rest a bit.

  Gene Fowler

  Disgrace, Bits

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

  Gene Fowler

  Long, Information, Psychiatry

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

  Gene Fowler

  Gratitude, Water, Desert

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• 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

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

  Gene Fowler

  Success, Children, Toys

  "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.

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• 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

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

  Gene Fowler

  Originality, Heard, Havens

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• News is history shot on the wing.

  Gene Fowler

  Wings, News, Shots

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