GENE FOWLER

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is easier to believe than to doubt.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

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.

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

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

News is history shot on the wing.