An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.

- Gene Fowler

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

- 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

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

- Gene Fowler

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

- Gene Fowler

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

- Gene Fowler

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 m…

- Gene Fowler

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

- Gene Fowler

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

- Gene Fowler