Gene Fowler's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Journalist
Nation: American
Biography of Gene Fowler
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Tags: Easy, Until, WritingWhatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
Tags: Mind, True, WhateverSometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Tags: Left, Sometimes, WritingLet us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
Tags: Heart, Learn, WaitMen are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Tags: Against, Men, ThemselvesEveryone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Tags: Enemy, Him, MindLove and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
Tags: Game, Last, LoveNever thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
Tags: Anybody, Drink, WaterPerhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
Tags: Again, Decision, MindThe best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
Tags: Best, Good, SuccessfulThey that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Tags: Cannot, Reason, SheFor 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.
Tags: Heart, Life, MenI 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.
Tags: Gave, Said, Speech