Gene Fowler

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#blood #drops #easy #forehead #form

If they haven't heard it before it's original. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#haven #heard #original

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#any #doing #fate #heart #labor

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#called #darkness #endure #game #last

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#anything #brief #desert #drink #except

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#conflict #decision #ever #first #lifetime

Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#information #long #psychoanalysts #seem #short

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

#best #best way #forget #good #good writing

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#counseled #hear #helped #knuckles #rap

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. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#brief #dali #down #finished #gave