For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
– Gene Fowler
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
– Gene Fowler
I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.
– Gene Fowler
I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
– Gene Fowler
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
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
– Gene Fowler
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
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
– Gene Fowler
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
– Gene Fowler
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert-and then make it brief.
– Gene Fowler
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
– Gene Fowler
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
– Gene Fowler
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
– Gene Fowler
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
– Gene Fowler
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
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
– Gene Fowler
Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
– Gene Fowler
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
– Gene Fowler
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.