Howard Fast Quotes

The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror.

- Howard Fast

In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife.

- Howard Fast

I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.

- Howard Fast

I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.

- Howard Fast

After the Spanish Civil War against Franco, a group of us got together: a group of well-to-do people who were sympathetic to the lost cause of a Republican state. We bought a convent in Toulouse and converted it into a hospital run by the Unitarians. It took care of the Spanish refugees who fled to Toulouse.

- Howard Fast

I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.

- Howard Fast

The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.

- Howard Fast

Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.

- Howard Fast

A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

- Howard Fast

It's been said that I am the most widely read writer of the 20th century. The number of books I've sold runs into untold millions.

- Howard Fast

I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.

- Howard Fast

I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.

- Howard Fast

Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.

- Howard Fast

To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.

- Howard Fast

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

- Howard Fast

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.

- Howard Fast

Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday.

- Howard Fast

A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.

- Howard Fast