Gene Fowler

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• Sometimes I think it sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.

• Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.
  • Of his writing.

• A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

• The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

• Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
  • sometimes attributed to Douglas Adams.

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

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

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

• A man should love two cities, its own and San Francisco.