The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
More Quotes from Gene Fowler:
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
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
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
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
An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone to look up to.
Gene Fowler
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