41 Quotes by Gene Fowler

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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