Gene Fowler
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.Collection: Respect
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.Collection: Men
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
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.
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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.
If they haven't heard it before it's original.
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.Collection: Inspirational
Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.Collection: Confidence
Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San FranciscoCollection: Men
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.Collection: Sarcastic
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.Collection: Art
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?Collection: School
A book is never finished; it's abandoned.Collection: Book
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mindCollection: Hygiene
It is no disgrace to rest a bit.Collection: Disgrace
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.Collection: Gratitude
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.Collection: Eagles
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.Collection: Money
News is history shot on the wing.Collection: Wings