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

Writing, Easy, Until

Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
Gene Fowler

Mind, True, Whatever

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

Writing, Sometimes, Left

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Gene Fowler

Heart, Wait, Learn

It is easier to believe than to doubt.
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

Mind, Enemy, Him

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

Age, Respect, Old

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

Love, Game, Last

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

Men, Against, Themselves

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

Success, Children, Among

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.
Gene Fowler

Life, Men, Heart

I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
Gene Fowler

Enterprise, Emphasis, Mrs

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

Down, Said, Speech

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

Before, Heard, Original

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

Water, Drink, Anybody

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

Mind, Decision, Again

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

Long, Short, Seem

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

Good, Best, Successful

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

Cannot, Reason, She

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: March 8, 1890

Died: July 2, 1960

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