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.
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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.
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.
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
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.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.
