Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. (2000) Successful Scientific Writing. p. 53
Sometimes attributed to Douglas Adams.
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Famous Gene Fowler Quotes
Attributed without citation in Blythe Camenson (2002) How to Sell, Then Write Your Nonfiction Book. p. 188
“Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.”
Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s (1961) p. 105
“Sometimes I think it sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”
Attributed without citation in Military Chaplains' Review, Chaplains, U.S. Army. (1981), p. 144
“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”
Quoted in H. Allen Smith's The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler (1977); as cited by Paul Dickson (1990), The New Official Rules, p. 74
“What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.”
Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s (1961); as cited by Jonathon Green (1988) Says who?: a guide to the quotations of the century. p. 308
Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s (1961), p. 99
Gene Fowler, as quoted by Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Goodbye, Viking Press, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-41374-7: About Wilson Mizner.
“He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.”
Attributed without citation in Judy Valon (2009) In Your 60s.
