Gene Fowler citations

Gene Fowler est un scénariste et acteur américain né le 8 mars 1890 à Denver, Colorado , mort le 2 juillet 1960 à Los Angeles . Wikipedia  

✵ 8. mars 1890 – 2. juillet 1960
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Gene Fowler: Citations en anglais

“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

Gene Fowler

Attributed without citation in Janice R. Matthews et al. (2000) Successful Scientific Writing. p. 53
Sometimes attributed to Douglas Adams.

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

Gene Fowler

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.”

Gene Fowler

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.”

Gene Fowler

Attributed without citation in Military Chaplains' Review, Chaplains, U.S. Army. (1981), p. 144

“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”

Gene Fowler

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.”

Gene Fowler

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

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

Gene Fowler

Skyline: A Reporter's Reminiscence of the 1920s (1961), p. 99

“That man was so much larger than life that there's no scale by which to measure him. Most of Wilson's dialogue, if put down on paper, seems either vulgar or obscene.”

Gene Fowler

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.”

Gene Fowler

Attributed without citation in Judy Valon (2009) In Your 60s.

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