The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
- Gene Fowler
Best, Good Writing, Read, Best Way
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.
- Gene Fowler
Reason, Very, Lives, Quintessence
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.
- Gene Fowler
Will, Brief, Salvador, Dali
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
- Gene Fowler
Age, Profound, Old, Bottled
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
- Gene Fowler
Forehead, Blank, Your, Sit
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
- Gene Fowler
Decision, Mind, Again, Tooth
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
- Gene Fowler
Reason, She, Rap, Knuckle
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
- Gene Fowler
Mind, Everyone, Needs, Movable
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
- Gene Fowler
Think, Like, I Think, Typewriter
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
- Gene Fowler
Success, Children, Balloon, Pins
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
- Gene Fowler
Never, Anybody, Thank, Brief
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
- Gene Fowler
Men, Against, Themselves, Merely
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
- Gene Fowler
Short, Information, Long, Application
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
- Gene Fowler
Love, Memory, Game, Endure
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
- Gene Fowler
Mind, Either, Believes, Be True
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