Best 19 quotes of Gene Fowler on MyQuotes

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

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.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind

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

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

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.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

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

News is history shot on the wing.

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.

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

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

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

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

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?

Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.