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. (Gene Fowler)
Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves. View quote
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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. View quote
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What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. View quote
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Sometimes I think it sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. View quote
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He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled. View quote
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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. View quote
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A book is never finished; it's abandoned. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness. (Gene Fowler)
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. View quote
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Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief. View quote
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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. View quote
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If they haven't heard it before it's original. View quote
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