Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan) (March 8, 1890 – July 2, 1960) was an American journalist, author and dramatist.
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.
Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
It is no disgrace to rest a bit.
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.
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
If they haven't heard it before it's original.
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
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?