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“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
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Gene Fowler
#Inspirational Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Blood Quotes
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“Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.”
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Gene Fowler
#Confidence Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”
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Gene Fowler
#Running Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
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“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”
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Gene Fowler
Source : "The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler". Book by H. Allen Smith, 1977.
#Book Quotes
#Abandoned Quotes
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“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
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Gene Fowler
Source : Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. "Successful Scientific Writing", p. 53, 2000.
#Inspirational Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Blood Quotes
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“Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.”
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Gene Fowler
Source : "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.
#Confidence Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Selfishness Quotes
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“The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.”
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Gene Fowler
Source : Attributed without citation in Blythe Camenson "How to Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book", p. 188, 2002.
#Writing Quotes
#Successful Quotes
#Way Quotes
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“Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco”
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Gene Fowler
#Men Quotes
#Cities Quotes
#Two Quotes
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“An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.”
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Gene Fowler
#Sarcastic Quotes
#Brother Quotes
#Writing Quotes
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“Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.”
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Gene Fowler
#Art Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Editors Quotes
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“He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.”
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Gene Fowler
Source : Attributed to Gene Fowler in Judy Valon "In Your 60s", 2009.
#Birthday Quotes
#Respect Quotes
#Profound Quotes
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“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?”
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Gene Fowler
#School Quotes
#Principles Quotes
#Divine Revelation Quotes
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“Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind”
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Gene Fowler
#Hygiene Quotes
#Two Quotes
#Mind Quotes
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“Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.”
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Gene Fowler
#Memories Quotes
#Games Quotes
#Darkness Quotes
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“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.”
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Gene Fowler
#World Quotes
#Speech Quotes
#Said Quotes
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“It is no disgrace to rest a bit.”
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Gene Fowler
#Disgrace Quotes
#Bits Quotes
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“Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.”
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Gene Fowler
#Gratitude Quotes
#Water Quotes
#Desert Quotes
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“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.”
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Gene Fowler
#Eagles Quotes
#Wings Quotes
#Bags Quotes
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“What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.”
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Gene Fowler
Source : "Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s". Book by Gene Fowler, 1961.
#Success Quotes
#Children Quotes
#Toys Quotes
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“Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.”
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Gene Fowler
#Decision Quotes
#Mind Quotes
#Firsts Quotes
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“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.”
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Gene Fowler
#Money Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Dollars Quotes
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“Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.”
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Gene Fowler
#Long Quotes
#Information Quotes
#Psychiatry Quotes
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“If they haven't heard it before it's original.”
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Gene Fowler
#Originality Quotes
#Heard Quotes
#Havens Quotes
